Eugene

Mutai

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Twitter/Github: @kn9ts

 

Brown Bag Friday.

 

Warp Drive

 

But 1st, Why?

 

Discover tonnes of new things, species or civilisation, be an intergalactic species e.t.c

 

Earth-Like Exo Planets

 

The closest being in Alpha Centuri (3rd brightest starts) which is 4.3 light years away

 

Habitable Zones

 

Even light is slow

 

It would take 4.3 years to get to Alpha Centuri travelling at the speed of light.

 

How far is Alpha Centuri

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Fastest Man-made object

 

Would take 70, 000 years

 

Don't even think about it

 

The state of the art space shuttle would take 165,000 years travelling at a speed of 28,300 Kph

 

Is FTL possible?

 

Travelling 10 times faster than the speed of light.

 

If Yes!!!

 

Would it not be f#@%!$#+

 

HARD

 

We choose to go to the moon

 

So what is warp drive?

 

To understand warp drive we first have to relativity

 

Theory of relativity 

 

Space and time are two parts of the same thing.

 
Albert Einstein
 

When you move

 

From one point to another, time also moves.

 

Manipulate Space/Time

 

The object remains still inside a warp bubble and space moves around it.

 
Miguel Alcubierre (1994)
 

Demonstration

Gravity can warp time/space

 

But you would require energy equivalent to the whole of U.S.A's consumption every year

 
Harold White (2012)
 

Sixty

Five
Exajoules

 

1st Problem probably solved

 

Only antimatter can make such a massive amount of energy

 

When matter and antimatter collide, they annihilate each other releasing a large amount of energy in the process

 

Is FTL still Possible?

 

Did cars, planes, computers, android phones, touch screens, icecream and even electricity exist waaaayy back?

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1st intergallactic travel

 

NASA plans to do the 1st intergalactic travel before

the end of the 21st century (85yrs counting down)

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To Infinity and beyond.

To Infinity and beyond

By Eugene Mutai

To Infinity and beyond

Brown bag's Friday presentation, about warp drive, is it possible to travel faster than the speed of light? If you why do we want to.

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