Re: the race for warp drive

In alt.astronomy a425couple <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6/27/24 06:50, [email protected] wrote:
>> Warp Theorists Say We've Entered an Exotic Propulsion Space Race to Build the
>> World's First Working Warp Drive
>> The Debrief, 27 Jun 2024
>> An international team of physicists behind several revolutionary warp
>> drive concepts, including the first to require no exotic matter, says
>> that recent unprecedented breakthroughs in physics and propulsion have
>> launched the world powers into a Cold War-style, 21st-century space
>> race to build the world's first working warp drive.
>> 
> 
> My opinion - Yes, we need better propulsion for space travel.
> But NO, we do not necessarily need to go faster than
> the Speed of Light.  That feat, may indeed be impossible.
...

Then you're in luck. The initial warp drives will likely be sub-light.
The FTL version so far is only "just" possible using bags of energy
and exotic matter.

But the universe managed to go from 0 to 100 bn light years in only 14 bn y
so at least we have something to aim for because "anture did it first". ;)

-- 
Humanity Uplifted: Poul Anderson's Brain Wave
Black Gate, 2 July 2020
The premise is this: something happens to cause, all over the world,
both people and animals to become smarter. Ordinary people become
geniuses.
[The story starts with a rabbit caught in a trap somehow reasoning how
to get out. During the last million years the earth has been in a zone
of space that negatively impacts thinking.  Having evolved normal
intelligence even with this burden, after the earth suddenly passes
out of the region humans find themselves (probably) the smartest
people in the galaxy. Reality is, of course, somewhat different.
Ask anyone from Neptune ;)].