Has NASA just discovered warp drive?

[Skywizard]

Space geeks are freaking out because NASA may have accidentally discovered a warp field, an avenue down
which spaceships can travel faster than the speed of light – something that, to date, has only existed in science fiction.


Warp drive was long the stuff of Star Trek fantasy – “Warp speed, Mr. Sulu,” is the command often given by James Kirk, captain of the fictional Starship Enterprise.

But in the 1990s, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed the idea of a wave that would cause the space ahead of a spacecraft to contract, while the space behind it expands. This distortion would create a warp bubble, in which a ship would travel while itself remaining stationary.

The tremendous amount of energy required made it impossible to translate Alcubierre’s vision into reality, however.

Building on his predecessor’s theories, Harold “Sonny” White of NASA’s Johnson Space Center made alterations that would significantly reduce the energy needs.

Meanwhile, in the lab, NASA and other space programs were experimenting with the EmDrive, a thrust engine that would be able to move in space without the need for fuel.

According to posts on NASASpaceFlight.com, a website devoted to the engineering side of space news, when lasers were fired through the EmDrive’s resonance chamber, some of the beams appeared to travel faster than the speed of light.

If that’s true, it would mean that the EmDrive is producing a warp field or bubble.

Mysterious Universe pulled the following comment from a space forum after the tests:

“That’s the big surprise. This signature (the interference pattern) on the EmDrive looks just like what a warp bubble looks like. And the math behind the warp bubble apparently matches the interference pattern found in the EmDrive.”

What’s more, the discovery was accidental, as this comment points out:

“Seems to have been an accidental connection. They were wondering where this ‘thrust’ might be coming from. One scientist proposed that maybe it’s a warp of the spacetime foam, which is causing the thrust.”

To prove that the warp effect was not caused by atmospheric heating, scientists will have to replicate the test in a vacuum. If the same results are achieved, it could mean that the EmDrive is producing a warp field, which could ultimately lead to the development of a warp drive.



Source: http://sputniknews.com/us/20150425/1021360503.html



peace...

[Cidersomerset]

Another in a longer list of 'science/faction' concepts that have become reality........
Teleportation , Tractor Beams , Force Fields , Replicators and other staples
of the original Star Trek and some are already here like digital phones ,
medical scanners etc.....

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

Haha, was reading about this last night; the spaceflight forums were buzzing with happy nerds --
I wasn't sure if it was a hoax or a "gift from above", but holy smokes,

*sticks out thumb* *grabs towel*

p.s. the NASA website does have some references to what they called "Zero point energy", not the same as 'total conversion' but just as nice, hehe

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/ind...pic=36313.1860

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/te.../ipspaper.html

[ghostrider]

believe it or not , the plejaren say there are ultra fine tiny particles , I believe they call them chronons , they can travel millions and billions of times faster than the speed of light ... there is also a web a sort of network of dark energy that spans the universe , they use it for communication , the signal is manifested before the communication begins , thus they can talk anywhere across the universe ... these particles , when we learn how they work , can enable a ship to jump anywhere in fractions of a second ... they say if the scrolls at Alexandria were not destroyed in wars , we would have been in space 200 years ago ...http://www.meiersaken.info/Time_Travel.html

[apokalypse]

Wrap Drive? this nothing new to me at all and many of you, i expected this Wrap Drive expecting to work when NASA announcing they working on Star Trek space travel vehicle few years back...

HoloDeck or one of those Virtual Reality we see on sci-fi shows/movies coming true...some people said Star Trek was ahead of it's time but really just more of Disclosure what out there or under rabit hole.

[sirdipswitch]

Star Trek was based on reality.

There's an old saying that: "When they start talkin about something... they have already had it for many years!"

Read an artical many years ago in which the American Space Copmmand officer said that 250 light years takes US Space Ships about two and a half months! Gee, it took light, 250 years,

Remember those touch screen computers on the Enterprise of Captain Picard???

That ex ASC Officer also said that it takes us about twp hours to the base on Mars and about thirty minutes to the base on the Moon.

[Axman]

This would be awesome uncle GR.

The Axman

Posted by ghostrider (here)
believe it or not , the plejaren say there are ultra fine tiny particles , I believe they call them chronons , they can travel millions and billions of times faster than the speed of light ... there is also a web a sort of network of dark energy that spans the universe , they use it for communication , the signal is manifested before the communication begins , thus they can talk anywhere across the universe ... these particles , when we learn how they work , can enable a ship to jump anywhere in fractions of a second ... they say if the scrolls at Alexandria were not destroyed in wars , we would have been in space 200 years ago ...http://www.meiersaken.info/Time_Travel.html

[pabranno]

This makes me nervous. I do not trust the intent of those who would wield these technologies.
Even if they meant well (which they don't), we are just not advanced spiritually enough to understand the implications, or control the repercussions.

We may inadvertently, (or deliberately) do great damage somehow to something which we simply cannot comprehend in our reality.

It's like giving a 3 year old a flame thrower.

Pamela