Faster than light speed ( Archived) (14)

This is not only for the Star Trek fans. I'm asking do you think our civilization, if it lasts that long will ever achieve faster than light speed? Someone in the military told me we are now testing a car that hovers and now I read a New Antigravity solution will
enable space travel near speed of light by the end of this century.
On Tuesday, Feb. 14, noted physicist Dr. Franklin Felber is presenting his new exact solution of Einstein's 90-year-old gravitational field equation to the Space Technology and Applications International Forum (STAIF) in Albuquerque. The solution is the first that accounts for masses moving near the speed of light.


What do you think? Definitely possible but is it probable to be able to travel at or faster than the speed of light?
The implications are enormous and applications even more mind boggling!

I think not in my lifetime

I hope it will happen in mine!

Thanks for your post!

Yep no problem.

I definately think it is possible. I just don't think we are anywhere close currently. I also don't feel that there is the desire to spend the money needed for the research right now.

Now if you could somehow link it to global warming some money may appear

You are right, I think we can come up with a lot of technology to help the human race move forward beyond certain "issues" but , yes, they don't want to spend the money necessary to get there...

It's a case of not only putting together the math to make it, it is finding the materials to be able to withstand the forces.

The theory holds water. Just look at a fly trapped in our car as we speed down the highway, it being seemingly oblivious to the outside forces, so the sound of actually moving mass at the speed of light is not so far off.

There are already technologies (not moving mass) that move at or faster than light speed.

Anyway, the whole thing reminds me of a Newfie joke I once heard...

Well, if a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it still make a sound?


But the fly analogy is a good point, though and yes, I think we can come up with the materials to withstand light speed, after all, once it goes that fast I don't think it's a matter of how strong it is, I think it has more to do with it's composition at the subatomic level and whether that material can adapt to the changes that might occur???

To withstand the changes that may occur...

Presently we have several probes out gathering data in our closer planets. To travel the speed of light will take some test runs still. I am sure it will not be in my lifetime, but I am quite positive in will be within the next 50 to 100 years.