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Scientists Create Gluon Laser, Discover Anti-Gravity and Warp Drive by Accident

SagaLore

SagaLore

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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/06/four-quark-particle/

When Y(4260) is created, the decay can be delayed by suspending it within a near vacuum enclosed in an EM field, directed EMP cause a controlled reaction that can be focused. The extra gluon's charge amplifies and resonates similar to that with lasers and photons.

Scientists discover that depending on how the field's flux is manipulated, the Y(4260) mass can exhibit repulsion against larger normal mass (anti-gravity), or, simultaneously compress and stretch space along the lasers axis (warp field).

More about the phenomenon and videos of working proof of concept can be found:

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This is just fiction. 😉
 
randomrogue said:
Not cool. You got my hopes up.
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The wired article is a good read - when I got the part about an extra gluon with a charge, I thought... we could do something with that. A lot of real stuff today started out as fiction.

If the Z(3900) particle does end up being 4 quarks, then that means with the right technology we will be able to make use of all sorts of exotic matter. The trick is keeping it from instantly decaying when created. I wonder if we could suspend anything within a buckminsterfullerene.
 
There are six known quark types — named up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top quarks – and they can combine in various ways.
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that must be confusing having up, down and top, bottom names for quarks. Maybe it makes more sense if you study it.
 
SagaLore said:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/06/four-quark-particle/

When Y(4260) is created, the decay can be delayed by suspending it within a near vacuum enclosed in an EM field, directed EMP cause a controlled reaction that can be focused. The extra gluon's charge amplifies and resonates similar to that with lasers and photons.

Scientists discover that depending on how the field's flux is manipulated, the Y(4260) mass can exhibit repulsion against larger normal mass (anti-gravity), or, simultaneously compress and stretch space along the lasers axis (warp field).

More about the phenomenon and videos of working proof of concept can be found:

here






This is just fiction. 😉
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And this Warp Drive research at my place of employment is not fiction:

White-Juday_Warp_Field_interferometer

The White–Juday warp-field interferometer is a testbed that has been proposed to detect a microscopic instance of a warping of spacetime, possibly leading to the later development of an Alcubierre warp bubble if one can be created. A research group at the NASA Johnson Space Center is investigating this possibility.[1]
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Also by the same NASA group (on-board) propellant-less propulsion:

Quantum_vacuum_plasma_thruster
A quantum vacuum plasma thruster (or Q-thruster) is a theoretical deep-space thruster that would not require any propellants. Thus a spacecraft utilizing such thrusters would not need to carry any propellants on board for their operation. A research group at the NASA Johnson Space Center is investigating this possibility.[1]
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If you can stand the dramatics, Pop Sci has an article about their work:

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-03/warp-factor

It'll be interesting to see if any of this basic science research pans out. If any of it does, it'll be a huge game changer.
 
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Rats...for a second, I was living in a world that I wanted to live in, they you took it all away at the end. Bastard!
 
These scientists screwing with things they don't understand - we're either going to wake Cthulu, or invite a headcrab invasion.
 
Raduque said:
These scientists screwing with things they don't understand - we're either going to wake Cthulu, or invite a headcrab invasion.
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You know that's a plausible danger. Kind of like how some feared nuclear weapons would ignite the atmosphere. Imagine some advanced species in another galaxy messing with some space-time experiments and it undoes everything. We might not even know something happened and just cease to exist.
 
damn you

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Paratus said:
And this Warp Drive research at my place of employment is not fiction:

White-Juday_Warp_Field_interferometer




Also by the same NASA group (on-board) propellant-less propulsion:

Quantum_vacuum_plasma_thruster



If you can stand the dramatics, Pop Sci has an article about their work:

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-03/warp-factor

It'll be interesting to see if any of this basic science research pans out. If any of it does, it'll be a huge game changer.
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Thanks for the quality updates. Good stuff, and good luck with your work.
 
JTsyo said:
that must be confusing having up, down and top, bottom names for quarks. Maybe it makes more sense if you study it.
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At one point, top and bottom were named truth and beauty. I don't know when or why they changed it. Maybe they wanted to return to "normal" names after charm and strange.
 
JTsyo said:
You know that's a plausible danger. Kind of like how some feared nuclear weapons would ignite the atmosphere. Imagine some advanced species in another galaxy messing with some space-time experiments and it undoes everything. We might not even know something happened and just cease to exist.
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Natural selection.

The Universes that survive are those which don't spawn life that destroys them.
 
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