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

[SagaLore]

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.

 

[waggy]

lol

 

[JJ650]

Dam you

 

[randomrogue]

Not cool. You got my hopes up.

 

[SagaLore]

Not cool. You got my hopes up.

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.

 

[Oyeve]

I forsee a realife Pacific Rim monster coming through this soon.

 

[JTsyo]

There are six known quark types — named up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top quarks – and they can combine in various ways.

that must be confusing having up, down and top, bottom names for quarks. Maybe it makes more sense if you study it.

 

[Brigandier]

Butt head.

 

[Paratus]

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.

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]

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]

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.

 

[Fritzo]

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!

 

[Fritzo]

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

White-Juday_Warp_Field_interferometer

I feel like this is what I should be doing, yet I'm wasting my life away adjusting IP addresses. If they invent a time machine, let me know because I want to go back and change my major

 

[Raduque]

These scientists screwing with things they don't understand - we're either going to wake Cthulu, or invite a headcrab invasion.

 

[Kadarin]

These scientists screwing with things they don't understand - we're either going to wake Cthulu, or invite a headcrab invasion.

You're right. We should just stick with things we already understand, and not strive to learn more.

 

[disappoint]

lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcwkOFSrLFI

 

[JTsyo]

These scientists screwing with things they don't understand - we're either going to wake Cthulu, or invite a headcrab invasion.

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.

 

[halik]

damn you

 

[Pr0d1gy]

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.

Thanks for the quality updates. Good stuff, and good luck with your work.

 

[JimS]

that must be confusing having up, down and top, bottom names for quarks. Maybe it makes more sense if you study it.

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.

 

[Jeff7]

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.

Natural selection.

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

 

[IronWing]

To test warping couldn't we just toss a crouton between two Ryan's Steakhouse patrons and observe it's path?