Hyperspace anyone?

[Tumble]

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A ways off yet, but they've dug up some research by a bloke called Heim... would be incredibly cool if it can work...

[dave87]

It looks interesting, but I doubt there will be a working implementation in my lifetime....most physicists don't understand the basic principles, let alone the finer workings...

[Lee H]

This will require a huge rotating ring placed above a superconducting coil to create an intense magnetic field.

Uh-oh, sounds like Event Horizon to me. I'll pass on being on the test flight of that ship as I've seen that film.

It's an interesting concept and way of thinking and I hope it leads to us advancing in physics as we know it

[Spud1]

Does sound very interesting..although the big rotating ring thing *never* works in the movies

If they can get funding for an experiment though, and refine his ideas then it would be amazing..as far as I understand it they propose a method of reducing the effect of gravity, possible even to the point in which it reverses. This would have amazing implications in physics, not just in space travel..

[Mossy]

hope they test this it would be cool, as said probably not in my lifetime Damm.....

[[GSV]Trig]

The bit that bothers me is

While that's 500,000 times the strength of Earth's magnetic field

anyone care to wager what would happen if something with that kinda magnetic pull was switched on?
Unless of course the amount of time between it being switched on and it slipping into hyperspace is really short..

However, and this'll get people's backs up no doubt..
What would happen if we switched it on in space close enuf to slowly tip the earth back slightly on its vertical axis, would that reverse part of the global warming thing, seeing as the earths rotation, the sun in general, the earths distance from the sun have a lot more to do with global warming that our Co2 emissions?
Or would it send us the other way into some sort of global super winter???

Destroy all the magnets now, there what's really causing global warming damn it!!!

[g8ina]

They dug this up in January 2006, just wondering if there's anything more recent on it.

[chicken]

Does anyone actually know what a hyperdrive does? I mean do you cease to exist from a normal point of view while you travel, or do you just appear to be going really really fast? Or is it just Anti-Gravity that they're talking about?

If you travel "Through" hyperspace, what happens if your hyperdrive breaks before you get back out the other end?

[[GSV]Trig]

Would of thought it depends how you get into hyperspace, if you create a bubble around the ship and everything in that bubble it normal space then I dont know, you could be crushed or you could appear back in normal space although theres nothing saying that you wouldnt appear inside another object, or you could just get spread across the point of space in which you reappear in normal space, and then theres the possiblility that you could really get spread around.
Imagine an apple in a car traveling at 200mph, you then drop the apple out of the window, the apple has left the relative bubble of the car and plopped back into its normal space which is the road, I'll leave the state of the apple to your imagination..

[No.72]

It's all like SG-1 to me.