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Originally Posted by Ioraptor
If you scroll down to page 9 of the first links pdf you find the classic problem with warp drive and wormholes. You need exotic matter or negative energy; both exist only in theory.
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(I'm enjoying this man! Thanks to you and everyone else for the stimulating discussion!!!
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There are flaws, although a number of these have been addressed in later papers. Yet, I must point out first that while negative energy on the scale we are talking about is only theoritical, negative energy states are not, and have been shown to exist in a number of experiments.
http://www.physics.hku.hk/~tboyce/sf.../wormhole.html
Let me also point out that much of modern cosmology and physics is also only theory, including General and Special Relativity.
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Originally Posted by Ioraptor
So yes, I think those theories are eventually going to open up space to us, but its not going to be anytime soon.
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And therein lies my point all along. Who is to say that these technologies, so far acvanced for us, won't be commonplace in 500 or 1000 years?
JJR
