General / Off-Topic Faster Than Light Impossible?

[Sir.Tj]

Moved to off topic.

 

[Angus]

A bit impartial to the laws of physics... pretty arrogant bunch those who claim something is absolutely right and its limits cannot be broken. FTL in one form or the other, IMO, will be possible - and who knows, someone might find a fundamental flaw in current claims and equations which will make Einstein look like a fool in the end (he btw didn't like quantum theory a tiny bit as it doesn't really cope well with his mindset).

I don't think anything is going to make Einstein look like as fool, and wasn't it Niels Bohr the main proponent of quantum mechanics who said, "Anybody who isn't outraged by quantum mechanics theory when they first hear it has not understood it properly."

 

[Maxx Peck]

Good news for you, Voyager 1 officially is now an interstellar probe.

Touché, in my defense: I wasn't born when it launched

 

[dublicious]

I know what you mean. There are some people who guard theories as if it's religious dogma. Defeats the point of scientific curiosity if there is a refusal to be flexible. There are many scientists, however, who accept that they don't know yet and whilst Einstein's theory doesn't so far explain things on the sub atomic level, it does appear to agree with everything else. These are the sort of people who are still looking for answers and may one day find a solution that unifies everything.

ACTUAL scientists (and intelligent, open-minded folks in general) are open to new ideas. However, they also apply some critical thinking which some people don't seem to like. In this video they're appropriately saying "I don't know", cause that's the only thing they can confidently say about it.

Anyway, I don't think the FTL technology used in ED is warp drive, so this video is kinda moot (IIRC).

 

[Maxx Peck]

ACTUAL scientists (and intelligent, open-minded folks in general) are open to new ideas.

But they remember not to open their minds too much, or their brains will fall out.

]Anyway, I don't think the FTL technology used in ED is warp drive, so this video is kinda moot (IIRC).

Well if IIRC the frameshift drive in E: D has some resemblence to how the Alcubierre drive works, so the video is valid

 

[zamalek]

Anyway, I don't think the FTL technology used in ED is warp drive, so this video is kinda moot (IIRC).

In Beta 1 there was weak gravitational lensing in front of ships in SC, not sure why they removed the effect - however that would imply that it is indeed Alcubierre-based.

 

[uncle bulgaria]

A bit impartial to the laws of physics... pretty arrogant bunch those who claim something is absolutely right and its limits cannot be broken. FTL in one form or the other, IMO, will be possible - and who knows, someone might find a fundamental flaw in current claims and equations which will make Einstein look like a fool in the end (he btw didn't like quantum theory a tiny bit as it doesn't really cope well with his mindset).

The problem is so much of what Einstein predicted in General Relativity has been proven through experimentation.

If you look at the maths travelling at speeds approaching light gets very awkward (essentially time for you stops and your mass become infinite)

 

[JeffRyan]

A bit impartial to the laws of physics... pretty arrogant bunch those who claim something is absolutely right and its limits cannot be broken. FTL in one form or the other, IMO, will be possible - and who knows, someone might find a fundamental flaw in current claims and equations which will make Einstein look like a fool in the end (he btw didn't like quantum theory a tiny bit as it doesn't really cope well with his mindset).

To be fair, the people who create the new laws are also scientists. So we always have a balance between progress and conservatism. It works and we steadily move forward. It's one of the things that irks me about criticism of science, is the people who criticise and move forward are also scientists.

 

[Thomas Jefferson Jones]

A bit impartial to the laws of physics... pretty arrogant bunch those who claim something is absolutely right and its limits cannot be broken. FTL in one form or the other, IMO, will be possible - and who knows, someone might find a fundamental flaw in current claims and equations which will make Einstein look like a fool in the end (he btw didn't like quantum theory a tiny bit as it doesn't really cope well with his mindset).

I doubt Einstein will ever look like a fool, just like Einstein never made Newton look like a fool - science is a continuum.

You're right it would be foolish to say anything is definitively impossible. But it bears consideration that there is very likely something in the Universe that *is not* possible. It could be FTL, it could be time travel to the past it could be cold fusion.

But in the case of impossibilities there's always the chance of finding a work around.