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Originally Posted by Captain Trips
Aye. That whole "large scale of cooperation" thing.
We have far to go before that is possible.
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Maybe, maybe not. Space exploration technology can advance by the R & D done and sponsored by private individuals and corporations.
Global cooperation and government sponsorship is nice to have but not needed.
IMHO, I don't believe FTL (faster-than-light) travel is as difficult as we've been led to believe. All you need to do is
warp space in such a way that creates a metric for a warp bubble in which a ship can travel (a la Alcubierre drive), and to be honest, I think all that's needed for that,
at minimum, is antimatter.
And I don't mean annihilating antimatter w/matter in some big tube a la Star Trek--that's pure science fiction, IMHO.
All that is probably needed is to
have antimatter stored aboard the ship (in a magnetic containment field, of course).
You see I genuinely believe (even though it's never been proven) that antimatter actually has an innate
negative gravitational field (even though it's energy and inertial mass is positive). The creation of such a field w/sufficient magnitude is likely all it takes it to create the Alcubierre metric which makes FTL travel possible.
And I reiterate my konspiracy theory--I think there are people/beings from the future who are actively thwarting R&D efforts for warp drive. They don't want humanity to know about it even though I suspect there are/were physicists have already figured it out (and have simply been told not to tell).
Yeah, call me crazy
. I can take it. Always have
