Post by Radrook Admin on Feb 25, 2020 22:01:21 GMT -5
Two Inventions I would Love To see
Warp Drive
As we all know, the universe is amazingly big, and the speed limit within it is 186,000 miles per second. Unfortunately our present velocities are not enough to provide us with a viable means for exploration within a viable amount of time. For example, our nearest star is approx. 4 light years away./ Sound near? Think again! That means that light travelling at approx. 186 miles every second, takes four years to cross that distance which is nearly 300,000 times the distance from the Earth to the sun.
At a maximum velocity of 56,000 km/h, or 34,796.78 mph of the theoretical vehicle Deep Space, 1 would take over 81,000 years to traverse the 4.24 light years between Earth and Proxima Centauri. To put that time-scale into perspective, that would be over 2,700 human generations. So it is safe to say that an interplanetary ion engine mission would be far too slow to be considered for a manned interstellar mission.
www.universetoday.com/15403/how-long-would-it-take-to-travel-to-the-nearest-star/
In contrast, a warp drive, or Alcubierri drive, as portrayed in the Sci fi series Star Trek, would make the voyage very easy since it is not limited by any universal speed limit. Once that is invented, then entire universe would be at our disposal to explore.
Neither would we be forced to suffer the effects of time dilation, where time passes at a slower pace than it does on Earth for the ship's crew the faster they travel. No more worrying about returning to Earth and finding that a loved one has died, or else has aged horribly while we have remained young.
Ion Engine falls short:
At a maximum velocity of 56,000 km/h, or 34,796.78 mph of the theoretical vehicle Deep Space, 1 would take over 81,000 years to traverse the 4.24 light years between Earth and Proxima Centauri. To put that time-scale into perspective, that would be over 2,700 human generations. So it is safe to say that an interplanetary ion engine mission would be far too slow to be considered for a manned interstellar mission.
www.universetoday.com/15403/how-long-would-it-take-to-travel-to-the-nearest-star/
In contrast, a warp drive, or Alcubierri drive, as portrayed in the Sci fi series Star Trek, would make the voyage very easy since it is not limited by any universal speed limit. Once that is invented, then entire universe would be at our disposal to explore.
Rather than exceeding the speed of light within a local reference frame, a spacecraft would traverse distances by contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind it, resulting in effective faster-than-light travel. Objects cannot accelerate to the speed of light within normal space-time; instead, the Alcubierre drive shifts space around an object so that the object would arrive at its destination faster than light would in normal space without breaking any physical laws.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
Teleportation
This is another one that would really be neat to see accomplished. It is shown in star Trek as people are teleported or beamed down to a planets surface and from one ship to another. It was also portrayed in the film Logan's Run, where citizen's on a dating net could have a chosen partner teleported their residence with a mere touch of a button.
Of course, there are films which cause great concern, such as the film The Fly where the teleporter splices the person's DNA with a fly that was teleported simultaneously with the scientist. But if it can be made safe, imagine the convenience of being in the USA one moment and in China the next almost simultaneously. Or maybe from Earth or earth orbit to the moon-base in an instant.
But why stop with people? Merchandise can be teleported immediately to your residence. Buy a guitar and have it immediately at your disposal instead of having to wait maybe several days to a week. Don't like the way it sounds? Simple-just teleport it back. Want to order a meal? Press a few buttons and it is delivered to your residence. No more long waits. Seems far fetched? Well, the first minute step might have already been taken.
Of course, there are films which cause great concern, such as the film The Fly where the teleporter splices the person's DNA with a fly that was teleported simultaneously with the scientist. But if it can be made safe, imagine the convenience of being in the USA one moment and in China the next almost simultaneously. Or maybe from Earth or earth orbit to the moon-base in an instant.
But why stop with people? Merchandise can be teleported immediately to your residence. Buy a guitar and have it immediately at your disposal instead of having to wait maybe several days to a week. Don't like the way it sounds? Simple-just teleport it back. Want to order a meal? Press a few buttons and it is delivered to your residence. No more long waits. Seems far fetched? Well, the first minute step might have already been taken.
Teleportation is the transfer of matter or energy from one location to another without either of them crossing the distance in the traditional physical sense. When Captain James T. Kirk of the "Star Trek" TV series and movies first told Starship Enterprise engineer, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott to "beam me up" in 1967, little did the actors know that by 1993, IBM scientist Charles H. Bennett and colleagues would propose a scientific theory that suggested the real-life possibility of teleportation.
By 1998, teleportation became reality when physicists at the California Institute of Technology quantum-teleported a particle of light from one location to another in a lab without it physically crossing the distance between the two locations. While some similarities do exist between science fiction and science fact, the teleportation in the real world differs greatly from its fictional roots.
sciencing.com/is-teleportation-possible-in-real-life-13711526.html
By 1998, teleportation became reality when physicists at the California Institute of Technology quantum-teleported a particle of light from one location to another in a lab without it physically crossing the distance between the two locations. While some similarities do exist between science fiction and science fact, the teleportation in the real world differs greatly from its fictional roots.
sciencing.com/is-teleportation-possible-in-real-life-13711526.html
