Aug 16
Two physicists have boldly gone where no reputable scientists should go and devised a new scheme to travel faster than the speed of light.
Star Trek technology: The reality
A brief history of warp drives
Warp Drive - A New Approach [the paper]
The advance could mean that Star Trek fantasies of interstellar civilisations and voyages powered by warp drive are now no longer the exclusive domain of science fiction writers.
The US Starship Enterprise from the original Star Trek series
In the long running television series created by Gene Roddenberry, the warp drive was invented by Zefram Cochrane, who began his epic project in 2053 in Bozeman, Montana.
Now Dr Gerald Cleaver, associate professor of physics at Baylor, and Richard Obousy have come up with a new twist on an existing idea to produce a warp drive that they believe can travel faster than the speed of light, without breaking the laws of physics.
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Tags: Albert Einstein, Physics, Quantum Physics, Science, Scientists, space, speed, Star Trek, Technology
Apr 13
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) - The Bush administration and Republican allies in Congress are again pushing for seed money to explore options for putting a multibillion-dollar layer of ballistic-missile interceptors in space.
Last year, the Democratic-controlled Congress rejected the administration’s request for $10 million to resume studies on the idea, first floated in the 1980s as part of then-President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative.
Derided by critics as “Star Wars,” the concept has been embraced by missile-defense backers as potentially more effective than sea- and ground-based parts of an emerging shield against missiles that could be tipped with chemical, germ or nuclear warheads.
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Tags: Boeing, Bush administration, chemical, Congress, germ, Lockheed Martin, Missiles, Northrop Grumman, nuclear, Orbital Sciences, Pentagon, Raytheon, seed money, space, Star Wars, warheads
