A Man is Trying to Beat NASA to a Warp Drive... In His Own Garage
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[QUOTE]David Pares isn’t content to just sit around and wait for NASA to create a real-world version of the warp drive theorized by NASA physicist Harold White. As crazy as it may sound, Pares is trying to Zefram Cochrane an engine in his garage that can compress the very fabric of the universe to move objects, and he says he’s close to success. If it works, that’ll make for one heck of a garage sale. The warp drive would, in theory, allow spaceships to move faster than light by creating a bubble of undistorted space around a ship and then expanding and contracting the space around it to move it through the universe. NASA’s own concept, an adapted version of an earlier theory by Mexican theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre, is still far from a reality, but Pares believes he can replicate the effect by manipulating electrical fields. Of course, not a lot of scientists, nor armchair scientist bloggers, are willing to believe that Pares could do such a thing. While Pares has submitted papers on his work to journals and made proposals at conventions, he’s not seeing any support. That’s probably because his work with electric fields is mostly based on dubious stories of pilots suddenly being moved off course while flying through storms, which Pares believes to literally be a naturally occurring version of warp drive space compression.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.themarysue.com/man-building-warp-drive-maybe/[/url]
Sorry if there's something I don't know since all threads having to do with this have been locked
I absolutely think he should try his hardest and hope it works out... But I'm gonna assume it won't work
Has he not done it yet?
Or has he already and time is warped but keeping it hidden?
Or maybe he's just full of shit?
He's still at it? He's got some dedication, I must say.
[QUOTE=Chrisordie;47611597]Has he not done it yet?
Or has he already and time is warped but keeping it hidden?
Or maybe he's just full of shit?[/QUOTE]
He's come back knowing the future and now plans on publicly fail before finding unending success in betting, playing the stock market, and at buying property that won't be destroyed by natural disasters.
[editline]27th April 2015[/editline]
Perhaps a variation of the plot to Back to The Future II is beginning as we speak.
[QUOTE=Chrisordie;47611597]Has he not done it yet?
Or has he already and time is warped but keeping it hidden?
Or maybe he's just full of shit?[/QUOTE]
Anyone that claims that the Alcubierre drive can be made or the variants of is is full of shit. Alcubierre's solution is a what if type of solution to the Einstein field equation, while it is cool/interesting and all that it is also nonphysical in the sense that no configuration of matter/energy can produce the geometry needed.
This crackpot again? His claims have been thoroughly debunked and his experiments show severe methodological errors, it's junk science at best that has been rightly discarded by the scientific community, but popular science reporting sure loves its plucky Galileo vs stodgy Church narrative so we keep seeing it pop up every so often.
[QUOTE=mcgrath618;47611550][url]http://www.themarysue.com/man-building-warp-drive-maybe/[/url]
Sorry if there's something I don't know since all threads having to do with this have been locked[/QUOTE]
They were probably locked for good reason.
[quote=The Article]That’s probably because his work with electric fields is mostly based on dubious stories of pilots suddenly being moved off course while flying through storms, which Pares believes to literally be a naturally occurring version of warp drive space compression.[/quote]
I don't have to be well taught in Physics to understand just what degree of bullshit this is
[QUOTE=Rct33;47611707]Anyone that claims that the Alcubierre drive can be made or the variants of is is full of shit. Alcubierre's solution is a what if type of solution to the Einstein field equation, while it is cool/interesting and all that it is also nonphysical in the sense that no configuration of matter/energy can produce the geometry needed.[/QUOTE]
ya alcubierre's solutions require exotic matter which is basically a fudge factor made up to obtain the desired results, but exotic matter cannot exist because it doesn't obey the same laws of physics. additionally if someone claims to have developed an FTL drive in their garage, they're most likely doing something wrong since the conditions that are present in a garage should have already been encountered in a lab setting
[QUOTE=Sableye;47611998]ya alcubierre's solutions require exotic matter which is basically a fudge factor made up to obtain the desired results, but exotic matter cannot exist because it doesn't obey the same laws of physics. additionally if someone claims to have developed an FTL drive in their garage, they're most likely doing something wrong since the conditions that are present in a garage should have already been encountered in a lab setting[/QUOTE]
Quantum mechanics and something like that may exist we just don't know of it.. Though even if someone does make it some how one day, I could only see it being use full as a weapon.
The fact he's using thunderstorms as his idea rather than the fact that eletric and magnetic fields cannot just "teleport" matter.
It's just a fact, however he's bringing up redshift and I'd like to see any proof or evidence of it.
Shit this is later than I thought, I only saw this recently, sorry m8s
He's a part time geography and meteorology Professor at my local Uni
I don't even care if it's a bunch of bullshit pseudo science, I still admire his dedication, and it's not like he's hurting anything by trying.
I think science needs it's naive visionaries; people who just fuck about without knowing what they're doing, because they have a tiny chance to stumble on to things that more educated scientists might just pass by.
[QUOTE=Pythagoras64;47612938]I don't even care if it's a bunch of bullshit pseudo science, I still admire his dedication, and it's not like he's hurting anything by trying.[/QUOTE]
unless he succeeds and uses it for evil
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;47612970]unless he succeeds and uses it for evil[/QUOTE]
Who's to say he didn't already go back in time to prevent NASA from beating him
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;47612970]unless he succeeds and uses it for evil[/QUOTE]
"And now I will search the galaxy for alien life to exterminate, build space ships so you can come and help when you work out the engine, don't kill the dolphins while I'm gone."
[QUOTE=Code3Response;47611969]They were probably locked for good reason.[/QUOTE]
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