Originally posted by Zealander
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But it is very cool that we can have an intelligent conversation about this.
Wormholes (I assume we are talking about the Lorentzian wormholes, the holes that have to do with General Relativity) I admit I don't know too much about besides the fact that they are theorized (they may not even exist) to be very small (1/100000th as small as a peice of hair), and only last for 1 trillionth of a second, and as far as we can tell only occur naturally in nature.
So for any civilizations wanting to use wormholes would have to know at what instance the worm hole was going to pop open, somehow expand it, stick some exotic matter (stuff with negative energy density) in them to make them stay open so that the person inside isn't crushed....it just seems that it is not going to happen.
Warp drives and faster than light speeds, is pretty crazy stuff. You know from E=MC^2 that it takes infinite energy to move infinate mass at the speed of light. The only way light goes lightspeed is because it has no mass. So for something to go beyond the speed of light you must have negative mass.
In this crazy world of negative mass, the less energy you have the faster it goes. I think these things are called tachyons.
So in conclusion, how is one to go faster than the speed of light when one has to have negative mass, how the heck are going to accomplish that?
I think bending spacetime would probably be your best bet....you gotta somehow create a unbelievable strong mass in front to contract spacetime, and then you would have to ride spacetime like a surfer rides a wave. It might be possible in the quantum level, but large things, that is hard to do.
I know this for a fact: 1 kg of Anti-matter is around 50 megatons of energy (the equivalent of "Zsar bomba" the largest nuclear device ever exploded, or 1% of the output of the sun over 1 second).
Sorry I feel as if this is a bunch or rambling.
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