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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Warp Drive


We've covered the idea of Energy Displacement so let's look at how the warp drive works.

Traveling through space allows us to achieve incredible speeds with very little effort.  Simply throwing a ball in space will propel it at speeds considered insane if you were on Earth.  As fast as we are able to travel, we have an issue because the distance between objects in space is vast.  Traveling from Northern Minnesota to Southern Louisiana is about 1,500 miles and would take you about 23 hours to drive.  The Earth to the moon, our shortest trip in space, is 238,900 miles.  Traveling around the Earth is only 24,901 miles.  When we start looking at places not in our neighborhood things get farther fast.  When things are lined up the best, traveling to Mars is around 36,000,000 miles.  That's quite the jump.

New fusion engines being researched for Mars jumps are estimated to get us to Mars in sixty days.  That's a huge improvement over our current travel time of over twice that.  That's not very good if we want to start colonizing Mars.  We need to go faster.

The problem with going faster is that even in space, we have to contend with the Energy Displacement which limits our speeds.  Now, you might be wondering what there is to actually displace in space.  My last example dealt with grass and air, neither of which you would have to deal with in space.  Space is empty; right?  No.

This is why we have to think of it as Energy Displacement and not Matter Displacement.  Matter is energy and there is a lot of energy in space.  Solar radiation, photons, space dust, hydrogen and helium are out there for us to run into.  Plus, we have to deal with the neutral base energy of the universe itself.  I know, I know, that doesn't actually exist you say.  Neutral base energy?  That's not a real thing!  Well, it sort of is.

Neutral base energy is the stuff of the universe that allows everything else to exist and travel.  If there was nothing to travel through then it wouldn't have to travel.  You can't have distance if you don't have something between two objects in space to take up the space between.  Neutral base energy is theoretically just unformed proto-energy that never bothered to condense to form radiation or particles.  It is the fabric of the universe that everything else is painted on if you will.  The amount of energy it possesses approaches zero but there is still enough there to have to overcome when we start to look at being able to travel faster.

The faster we travel, the more energy we have to displace at any given moment in time because we are squishing the medium we are traveling through in front of us.  It's like punching foam, it's easy at first but once the foam is condensed it becomes more solid.  The foams energy becomes tightly packed in front of our fist, resisting displacement and preventing us from traveling any further.  Neutral base energy is much like the foam.  As we travel faster and faster, the NBE in front of us begins to condense as we travel through it.  The faster we go, the greater the condensing effect becomes until it becomes so dense we can no longer pass through it.

It seems I am out of time for this morning...I will continue later.

2 comments:

Froyd said...

Dammit, Keith...I'm a myth doctor, not a scientist!

Ventola said...

We are all scientists in a way. Getting to actual warp travel is taking pinger than I thought. Sorry about that.