Warp Speed Scotty!

[Perkil8r]

 http://www.space.com/21140-star-trek-warp-drive-possible.html

 

In fact, scientists at NASA are right now working on the first practical field test toward proving the possibility of warp drives and faster-than-light travel. Maybe the warp drive in "Star Trek Into Darkness," the franchise's latest film opening this week, is possible after all.

 

 

Things with mass can't move faster than the speed of light. But what if, instead of the ship moving through space, the space was moving around the ship?

Space doesn't have mass. And we know that it's flexible: space has been expanding at a measurable rate ever since the Big Bang. We know this from observing the light of distant stars — over time, the wavelength of the stars' light as it reaches Earth is lengthened in a process called "redshifting." According to the Doppler effect, this means that the source of the wavelength is moving further away from the observer — i.e. Earth.

So we know from observing redshifted light that the fabric of space is movable.

 

 

Science never ceases to amaze me, we really are living in a golden age IMO.

[Tibbz2]

And people have the cheek to ask me why I want to go into something 'boring' when I tell them I want to do physics!!!