Message from @Abel
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more then likely if same thing happened DNC wouldn't announce it (or atleast same way)
so probably not
*wants his super soldiers*
DNC is more like 'lets do military action and not talk about it xd'
Maybe when we start researching ftl and start building ships with artificial gravity we'll attract the attention of aliens.
What do you mean by FTL though? Light reaches every point in the universe immediatly. Thats from the photons frame of reference.
faster then light presumably
Yeh
i know what FTL stands for
But the question is how do you measure the speed
this all sounds very post modern ngl
but time is not objective and that means speed is not objective, either
or rather, universal
You know what he means, stop showing off.
Listen mr Niel Degrasse Foucault he obviously meant as a whole object experiencing such travel in realtime not on some atomic level
muh time dilation
Well i dont actualy know what people exactly mean by FTL. What you would think of if you look at it from a naive pov wouldnt make sense taking the nature of space and time into account.
What they mean is RLLY FAST.
listen im all for further explaining physics but i think its pretty well accepted the common conception of faster then light travel, all im saying
Or is that time travel
Okay heres the thing about FTL travel. You can calculate the time that passes from the reference frame a object moving relative to you rather easily. Its the squareroot of the difference of the distance they move to what light would move in the same time squared. For example, if you see an object that takes 6 seconds to move 2 lightseconds relative to you, its the squareroot of 6² - 2².
If an object were to move at the speed of light, it takes zero time from the perspective of that object...
and negative time, somehow, if it were to be even faster than light...
What laymen mean by FTL
SHUT UP I FAILED PRE-ALGEBRA WTF IS THIS GIBBERISH?!?!?
Is that you from your starting position can reach somewhere before the light from a flashlight that someone standing next to your starting position does.
That's it.
Whether it's done through a wormhole or some other not yet understood means doesn't matter.
They just mean really really really really fast
Wormholes may be able to do that, actualy. Though there are problems with that
And it means fast from the perspective of the people at the starting point, and the travelers.
Cause, if you did that twice, once reaching alpha centauri and then back, you could be back earlier than you started...
^show your work
alcubierre drive probably can't move faster than light either. not if it ever wants to interact with the universe again. the control systems would still be bound by light speed, and if it moves faster than light it can't control itself.
it's still useful obviously
from the perspective of the ship with an alcubierre drive, i was under the impression that the ship isn't actually moving faster then light
But i dont see the issue in sub lightspeed travel. If you do move at a significant portion of the speed of light, after all, you will still barely experience any time yourself during your travel
ok yeah. The alcubierre drive isn't moving faster than light, it's warping space around it using an energy density field