Traveling the speed of light (or greater) ... and why it won't be done.

[Eug]

Well, there's nothing saying we CAN'T bend or fold space, but we can't do it. This type of technology would require exotic matter, which would display a negative mass. If we were able to find exotic matter, it would open up a lot of Star Trek/Star Wars technologies, including warp drive and levitation.

Teleportation is a lot less likely. We can do it on a sub-atomic scale, but the energy required to teleport a human would destroy a country the size of Mexico. Not to mention the computing data that would need to be processed to reassemble a person (imagine a stack of hard drives that spanned 1/2 the length of the galaxy), and the ethical question "Did I just kill a person and reassemble a completely different person?"

When I started my foray into internet access, I did it with a modem at 110 baud. I am now typing this message on a 1000 Mbps connection. Essentially 1 billion baud.

 

[Fritzo]

When I started my foray into internet access, I did it with a modem at 110 baud. I am now typing this message on a 1000 Mbps connection. Essentially 1 billion baud.

There is also an upper limit to the amount of data you can transfer over any particular medium. In our universe, matter can not travel over space at the speed of light- it will always be slower. This is because the faster you go, the more energy you need, and matter travelling at c. would require infinite energy.

 

[Eug]

There is also an upper limit to the amount of data you can transfer over any particular medium. In our universe, matter can not travel over space at the speed of light- it will always be slower. This is because the faster you go, the more energy you need, and matter travelling at c. would require infinite energy.

Currently, with the same type of technology we can achieve real world speeds of over 1 Petabits per second. That's today.

 

[bigi]

Like your momma running to the buffet when she hears they are running out of meatloaf...

no cha

 

[SeductivePig]

Hilarious how people in these threads say things cant be done. We are nothing but a speck on the cosmological time scale and know hardly anything about whats possible and what isnt.

There are alien civilizations millions of years more advanced than us who can probably do anything you can imagine.

 

[dud]

Hilarious how people in these threads say things cant be done. We are nothing but a speck on the cosmological time scale and know hardly anything about whats possible and what isnt.

There are alien civilizations millions of years more advanced than us who can probably do anything you can imagine.

I REALLY want to know what you're drinking Crazy! Please share ...

 

[Paratus]

Hilarious how people in these threads say things cant be done. We are nothing but a speck on the cosmological time scale and know hardly anything about whats possible and what isnt.

There are alien civilizations millions of years more advanced than us who can probably do anything you can imagine.

Except reach a Kardashev Level 3 civilization.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale#