Thursday, August 14, 2008
Faster than light spacecraft
        I read an interesting article online about an idea for a faster than light spacecraft that could use dark energy to form a bubble around its self and decreases the dark energy in front of the ship to bring the expansion rate of the universe to a stop. It wouldn’t break the laws of Einstein: that nothing can travel faster than light in our universe. Because, they say, that the universe is expanding faster than light can travel and by using this expansion the spacecraft can exceed the speed of light. The only problem is that it would take the whole mass of Jupiter converted into pure energy to accomplish this! I don’t think we’ll see this for a long time to come. I wrote about something like this about black holes, that the compression of matter as it falls toward the singularity is squeezed to a point that it loses space time and could leak out of a black hole because it could exceed the speed of light- I’m only guessing on this part. Maybe this is dark matter or dark energy. Nobody knows yet what this dark energy/matter is.
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