NASA: Working on Proof Of Concept for Faster Than light Travel.

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chatsworth_vol said:
Just to remind people about something I keep seeing mentioned here. It is the "Theory of Relativity", not a proven Law. I know it has been almost 2 decades since I studied any of this in school, things may have changed since then, but that is how I remember it. It hasn't been proven as an absolute, not like the Law of Gravity has been for example. Like all theories it can still be proven or disapproved, when Einstein came up with it they didn't have the tech available to prove it absolutely, heck I doubt we do yet. There may be exceptions to it that we haven't even discovered yet.
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Science really needs a new term to use in place of "theory" because most people hear that word and immediately jump to all the wrong conclusions. There is a huge difference in the meaning of "scientific theory" and the everyday use of the word "theory" and people toss around.
 
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I, for one, am glad we haven't discovered life on other planets.

My taxes would go up from the aid we would give them.

Btw wouldn't it be easier to bend space as opposed to traveling at a gazillion miles per hour?
 
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Obsessed said:
I, for one, am glad we haven't discovered life on other planets.

My taxes would go up from the aid we would give them.

Btw wouldn't it be easier to bend space as opposed to traveling at a gazillion miles per hour?
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depends, from what I understand in the article/video that is what they are doing (bending space to make it 'seem' like they are going really fast) and two it depends on how you are getting up to a gazillion miles per hour. The tech exists now to get up to a gazillion miles per hour (rail gun tech-we are starting to put that **** into our military usually on nuclear powered ships but they are looking into putting on humvees and maybe a tank or striker platform as well) they just have to work out the kinks and make it a lot bigger to shoot a ship instead of a 'bullet/round' and get it into space.
 
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LouderVol said:
depends, from what I understand in the article/video that is what they are doing (bending space to make it 'seem' like they are going really fast) and two it depends on how you are getting up to a gazillion miles per hour. The tech exists now to get up to a gazillion miles per hour (rail gun tech-we are starting to put that **** into our military usually on nuclear powered ships but they are looking into putting on humvees and maybe a tank or striker platform as well) they just have to work out the kinks and make it a lot bigger to shoot a ship instead of a 'bullet/round' and get it into space.
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I think travelling near the speed of light or at the speed of light in a craft to travel intersteller is an unlikely scenario when you look at the plausible alternative of bending space-time. Also if humans were to travel in space at excess speed then they will in-effect be time-travelling so the entire exercise would be pointless.
 
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alexmanu said:
I think travelling near the speed of light or at the speed of light in a craft to travel intersteller is an unlikely scenario when you look at the plausible alternative of bending space-time. Also if humans were to travel in space at excess speed then they will in-effect be time-travelling so the entire exercise would be pointless.
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FIND THE NEAREST BLACK HOLE!!!!!! There are many many problems with traveling at the speed of light both scientific/logistically. A problem is there is no way to measure ftl speeds so that is at least part of the reason it is/seems impossible. Another problem is going that fast would outdistance any form of communication we have
 
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LouderVol said:
FIND THE NEAREST BLACK HOLE!!!!!! There are many many problems with traveling at the speed of light both scientific/logistically. A problem is there is no way to measure ftl speeds so that is at least part of the reason it is/seems impossible. Another problem is going that fast would outdistance any form of communication we have
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This could be the start of taking care of that problem!

The U.S. Army Says It Can Teleport Quantum Data Now, Too
This kind of tech has implications that extend beyond the battlefield.

The U.S. Army Says It Can Teleport Quantum Data Now, Too
This kind of tech has implications that extend beyond the battlefield.

Quantum computing could revolutionize the way we interact with information. Such systems would process data faster and on larger scales than even the most super of supercomputers can handle today. But this technology would also dismantle the security systems that institutions like banks and governments use online, which means it matters who gets their hands on a working quantum system first.

Just last week I wrote about how a team of researchers in the Netherlands successfully teleported quantum data from one computer chip to another computer chip, a demonstration that hinted at a future in which quantum computing and quantum communications might become a mainstream reality.

That still seems a long way off—physicists agree that transmitting quantum information, though possible, is unstable. And yet! The U.S. Army Research Laboratory today announced its own quantum breakthrough.

A team at the lab's Adelphi, Maryland, facility says it has developed a prototype information teleportation network system based on quantum teleportation technology. The technology can be used, the Defense Department says, to transmit images securely, either over fiber optics or through space—that is, teleportation in which data is transmitted wirelessly.

The DoD says it can imagine using this kind of technology so military service members can securely transmit intelligence—photos from "behind enemy lines," for instance—back to U.S. officials without messages being intercepted.

But this kind of technological advance, especially in a government-run lab, is significant for the rest of us, too. Quantum computing would offer unprecedented upgrades to data processing—both in speed and scope—which could enhance surveillance technologies far beyond what exists today.

"That's why the NSA in particular is so interested in quantum computers and would like to have one," the physicist Steve Rolston told me last week, "and probably would not tell anyone if they did."
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I watched the video and I believe he said the answer is to make the spaceship go real fast
 
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