Thrax
27 Nov 2004, 11:13am
Here (http://www.cakes.mcmail.com/StarTrek/index.htm).
A free resource that has (As far as I can tell) very accurate details of various quantum/newtonian physical phenomena. It explains how Star Trek warp fields could work, what quantum teleportation is and how it could work, it talks about quantum entanglement, quantum singularities, magnetic fields.
This stuff is deep. Everything is explained for us people that can't read a full page of quantum-derived multi-variable calculus to understand what's going on. ;D
Here's a small quote from the piece on FTL travel:
Special Relativity postulates that no object may move locally faster than that of light in a vacuum, that is approximately 2.997925*108 ms-1. However, general relativity tells us that space-time is curved by mass and that the whole universe is curved. Instead of a flat Euclidean geometry we must think in terms of non-Euclidean surfaces where the trajectory of particles are geodesic about the space time distortions created my mass. These theories have been supported quite accurately by the discovery of wrinkles in space-time. The famous COBE image can be found at the early universe section of this site. This means that the local markers need not be seen as necessarily be considered preventive to faster than light travel. (Krauss 1995). Space itself has had periods of faster than light expansion when matter was created forcing the space to expand faster than light even though no particle possessed a speed in excess of c. Therefore, bending or creating space would allow apparent speeds that are very high. Unfortunately, the energy requirement to do either is prohibitive. That is not simply a problem that can be solved if we could develop a method of creating more energy, as the total mass of the universe if annihilated could not create enough energy to propel the Starship Enterprise.
It's fun!
A free resource that has (As far as I can tell) very accurate details of various quantum/newtonian physical phenomena. It explains how Star Trek warp fields could work, what quantum teleportation is and how it could work, it talks about quantum entanglement, quantum singularities, magnetic fields.
This stuff is deep. Everything is explained for us people that can't read a full page of quantum-derived multi-variable calculus to understand what's going on. ;D
Here's a small quote from the piece on FTL travel:
Special Relativity postulates that no object may move locally faster than that of light in a vacuum, that is approximately 2.997925*108 ms-1. However, general relativity tells us that space-time is curved by mass and that the whole universe is curved. Instead of a flat Euclidean geometry we must think in terms of non-Euclidean surfaces where the trajectory of particles are geodesic about the space time distortions created my mass. These theories have been supported quite accurately by the discovery of wrinkles in space-time. The famous COBE image can be found at the early universe section of this site. This means that the local markers need not be seen as necessarily be considered preventive to faster than light travel. (Krauss 1995). Space itself has had periods of faster than light expansion when matter was created forcing the space to expand faster than light even though no particle possessed a speed in excess of c. Therefore, bending or creating space would allow apparent speeds that are very high. Unfortunately, the energy requirement to do either is prohibitive. That is not simply a problem that can be solved if we could develop a method of creating more energy, as the total mass of the universe if annihilated could not create enough energy to propel the Starship Enterprise.
It's fun!