Will humaity ever accomplish Lightspeed travel or FTL travel? And when.

I think yes, and within 300 years.

Discuss why or why not. Or discuss if you think its not possible.

I think that if they discover a new way to harness that type of speed, I believe they could send something the speed of light, but not a human being

This post was edited by Jackson_l on Dec 11 2008 08:13pm

Well...even IF it is possible, I don't see the prospects of us ever reaching that speed -- simply because our definition of the universe in terms of physics says that we cannot travel at lightspeeds, and that to maintain speeds near light speed require incredibly large amounts of energy, so basically if its possible to reach light speed we're already on the wrong track. Our entire definition of physics would have to be rewritten and I don't think thats happening in 300 years.

You'd have to use some sort of loop hole regarding travel speed (moving through space in non-linear paths), wormholes or other more exotic methods.

I highly doubt we'd achieve this level of technology in 300 years (if it is even possible).

Not unless something substantial happens... as in we defy our own laws of physics.

But thats our defenition of physics, on other planets, Physics might be extremly diffrent, we have no idea, just like there could be organisms that dont follow any of humanitys defenition of a living thing, so I think our defenition of physics could be either wrong, or completly diffrent in another Galaxy or on another planet. We just don't know. We might be on the wrong track but its never to late to jump back on the right track. I just hope.



Who knows, Humaitys knowledge has increased more in these last 100, or 50 or even 25 years than in the last 10 000 years, mabye next century it will be more, or even this century, its still far beyond our grasp of Physics but we can hope in the future it won't.

This post was edited by SalvationDG on Dec 11 2008 08:17pm

I forgot the statement's name, but it says basically that conditions in our area of the universe (light speed among other things) are constant throughout the universe.

Even though organisms found on other planets would be extraordinarily different, chances are the same laws of physics would apply to them.

But we don't even know if our laws of physics are even true. Since we are not far enough in technolgy there is no good way of testing them, leaving them ; still as laws of physics, but still only theorys.

Well isn't that what we build the LHC for

As much as technology continues to advance, I'll bet my Luna sigs that we won't achieve FTL travel within 300 years, although obviously we won't know the outcome (cryogenic freezing anyone?)

Hey, Im up for that, its expensive though.