It's not a matter of technology for humans or any other species - it is absolutely physically impossible - or at least everything we know to be true about the universe, and 99% has already been tested to +10 decimal places, would have to be completely wrong.
The Physics That Makes Interstellar Travel IMPOSSIBLE ...
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They said the same thing about the sound barrier. Truth be told we probably really don't know squat about the universe.
Except for 400 years it stayed in the small circle, then in the last 25 years it moved across the large oval.
But yes who knows what is normal? Cool graphic - thanks for posting.
Many of these scientist are nothing more than a bunch of quacks and voodoo practitioners.
https://physicsdetective.com/the-nobel-prize-winner-who-thinks-we-have-the-universe-all-wrong/
https://energydigital.com/smart-energy/cern-says-neutrinos-faster-speed-light
https://physicsdetective.com/the-nobel-prize-winner-who-thinks-we-have-the-universe-all-wrong/
https://energydigital.com/smart-energy/cern-says-neutrinos-faster-speed-light
When the human race figures out the mysteries of quantum entanglement, interstellar travel won’t be necessary. Think Star Trek transporter.
I imagine at some point, our current theories on particle physics, gravity, space, and time will look a bit silly?
But the only way to get there is to have some smart people working on it...
Chemistry obviously works, and we do/did pretty well with just atomic theory principals, but quantum mechanics explains the "whys" better than atomic theory, but its all small steps(forward or back) in the process of understanding more.
I guess the chemistry theories and practices, before atomic theory, look a bit crazy in hindsight, but lots of functional compounds were made reliably before the 1800's?
I imagine at some point, pouring lots of our time, talent, and resources used in the financial sector will look a bit silly?
I'm inspired when the nodes of a great mind fit the valleys of other great minds...
SOME scientists are nothing more than a bunch of quacks and voodoo practitioners but many more are good honest people actually trying to contribute positively to society.
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While I dont know many folks in history personally, I agree. RF was practical.........and that is important in these types of conversations. Common sense matters. Reality matters.
Beyond the obvious issues like "plot a course Mr. Data/Chekov" and not hitting a grain of dust at near light speed and dying, or the little issue of time dilation making any trip a one way trip.........the other issue I see is causality.
Light speed, and maybe light, give us a foundational rule of existence. Without this speed limit, there would be no cause and effect, there would be no past, present, or future......maybe such that the folks who were travelling at this speed would be simultaneously moving and not moving, relative to the observation.
If one were you travel at this speed, then would THEY be traveling at all? If time would stop at this speed, and we measure speed by time/distance......would they even be moving? It would seem a question for a smarter person than I.
We have rules.....we have limits.....and the design of the universe, IMO is such that some rules just cant be broken. This is one of them.
We measure speed as distance/time or space/time. Spacetime is sort of the total budget divided into space and time. The faster you move through space the less time is left in your budget and by the time you're a photon traveling at c, you experience NO TIME at all - you are all space and no time. From a photons point of view, it is emitted and absorbed at its final destination at the same time, even if billions of years have gone by for us, people moving much slower and whose budget is very heavily sided towards experiencing maximum time because we aren't using up much of our space budget.
If only the idea of life on other planets would unite all of us on Earth. Instead of separate countries, we all work together on the same team, as it were.
Probably not gonna happen, but it should.
I have met a few scientists in actual industry - searching for practical answers to problems. The jest I get from them is we spend way to much money funding theoretical stuff that will benefit no one in their lifetime (like quantum mechanics) and way too little money funding stuff that might have practical use now - like curing disease or alternative energies or even travel within our solar system.
Yeah, how was nobody else pointing out that this was not actually Feynman?
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According to Stodolsky, in "The speed of light and the speed of neutrinos". Physics Letters B. 201 (3): 353–354,
and
Cohen in, "New constraints on neutrino velocities". Physical Review Letters. 107 (18) 181803,
Neutrinos travel at or near the speed of light.
Right. Light doesn’t travel. Somehow a photon is massless and does not experience time.
I saw the space/time budget video some time ago and it makes one scratch their head.
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