• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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    12 years ago

    What the article actually says is that negative energy drives are likely impossible, however slower than light speed drives may be possible. It’s an ongoing research, and there’s not enough evidence to claim that such drives aren’t possible. So, yes there is plenty of research suggesting that there are reasons to believe otherwise.

    • @a_Ha@lemmy.ml
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      22 years ago

      it might be only semantics, yet it seems we disagree. Here i read “science” has “established science”. I know “research” as what’s going on in the life and the head of searchers : funding, instrumentation, experimentation, analysis, publication and politics … inside all this, “science” is an accidental and lucky byproduct.

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          32 years ago

          Nor does it precludes (farfetch hypothesis X). My un-scientific instinct tells me warp drives is like time travel : amusing & appealing yet unlikely.

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            22 years ago

            Our understanding of physics does not preclude time travel, especially in the forward direction. Anything moving at relativistic speeds will experience time dilation meaning that subjective time will be experienced differently. The only type of warp drive that’s currently controversial in terms of plausibility is one that requires negative energy.

            • @a_Ha@lemmy.ml
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              12 years ago

              We both agree on this one : time travel toward the future 😌
              let’s call it a day, goodbye for now…