irishspirit
21st January 2011, 15:10
http://news.discovery.com/tech/2010/01/21/hyperspace-278x225.jpg Is it possible to travel at seven-hundred-million miles an hour?
Frank Bonilla/Flickr.com
We’re going to step into the middle of a nifty science and engineering controversy.
Today. On Engineering Works! Listen to the podcast (http://engineeringworks.tamu.edu/index.php/2010/hyperspace-travel/).
If you’ve ever taken a physics course, you know that nothing can go faster than the speed of light, 186,000 miles a second. Seven-hundred-million miles an hour.
Everything physicists know says you can’t go faster. But some physicists and engineers think they can do an end run around the speed-of-light limit.
They say that ideas developed about 50 years ago by a German scientist named Burkhard Heim suggest that we could use a very strong magnetic field to push spacecraft into another dimension. A dimension where the physical laws that make the speed of light as fast as anything can go don’t exist.
http://news.discovery.com/tech/travel-mars-three-hours.html
Frank Bonilla/Flickr.com
We’re going to step into the middle of a nifty science and engineering controversy.
Today. On Engineering Works! Listen to the podcast (http://engineeringworks.tamu.edu/index.php/2010/hyperspace-travel/).
If you’ve ever taken a physics course, you know that nothing can go faster than the speed of light, 186,000 miles a second. Seven-hundred-million miles an hour.
Everything physicists know says you can’t go faster. But some physicists and engineers think they can do an end run around the speed-of-light limit.
They say that ideas developed about 50 years ago by a German scientist named Burkhard Heim suggest that we could use a very strong magnetic field to push spacecraft into another dimension. A dimension where the physical laws that make the speed of light as fast as anything can go don’t exist.
http://news.discovery.com/tech/travel-mars-three-hours.html