Re: the race for warp drive

R Kym Horsell wrote on 3/07/2024 2:38 pm:
> 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". ;)
> 
Sorry!! When did we determine that The Universe was '100 bn light years' 
across??
-- 
Daniel