CAN WE TRAVEL FASTER THAN LIGHT[THROUGH THE WORMHOLE]Season 2, Episode 7http://science.discovery.com/tv/through-the-wormhole/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Wormholehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1513168/http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/through-the-wormhole/Excerpts:CAN WE TRAVEL FASTER THAN LIGHT
"The closest star is about 25 trillion miles away.
The fastest spacecraft we have today
would take more than 10,000 years to get there.
The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second,
or 670 million miles per hour.
Nothing goes faster than the speed of light.
It really is the maximum speed limit
for everything in the Universe.
Light travels a million times faster than sound.
It's fast enough to circle the Earth seven times
in just one second.
The way it moves is different
from everything else in the Universe.
Light would be seen to be moving at the same speed
no matter what my car was doing.
You don't add the speed of light to the speed of the car.
The speed of light is always the speed of light.
MORE SPEED -> MORE ENERGY
MORE ENERGY -> MORE MASS
MORE MASS -> LESS SPEED
The energy it takes to accelerate
increases and increases
as you come closer to the speed of light.
If, in principle, you wanted to go the speed of light,
you need and infinite amount of energy
to accelerate you that fast.
Or you're gonna get more and more energy,
but you're not going to get that much more speed.
WARP DRIVE
Miguel's idea stems from another aspect
of Einstein's theory of relativity --
that the shape of space can be distorted by mass or energy.
A warp drive can only function
with a mysterious power source --
negative energy.
... (today) negative energy is just unproven theoretical concept.
WORMHOLE
In this two-dimensional analogy,
the opening of the straw is just a circle.
But, because we live in three dimensions,
the opening of the wormhole would actually be
like the interior of a bubble.
... And we've proven mathematically they're unstable.
The negative energy needed to keep a wormhole open
in inherently too unstable.
A man-made wormhole would collapse the instant
someone tries to step inside.
TELEPORTATION
We could turn our bodies into information
and send that information from place to place
at the speed of light.
Chris Monroe and Steve Olmshenk
are quantum physicists at the University of Maryland.
THEY ARE PIONEERS OF TELEPORTATOIN.
Entanglement.
Steve and Chris have successfully transferred
the information from one atom to the other.
In other words, they teleported the atom.
... but the real question
is whether we will ever by able to teleport teh state
of all the 7000 trillion trillon atoms in an entire person
from one place to another.
In Physics,
every force has a particle that carries it.
Electromagnetic force is carried by light, or photons.
The electromagnetic force keeps atoms glued together
with a constant exchange of photons
that bounce from the nucleus to its orbiting electrons.
When you look in one dircetion on the sky,
the strength of the electromagnetic force
appears to decrease with increasing distance from us,
and when you look in exactly the opposite direction on the sky,
the converse is true.
The strenght of electromagnetism
seems to increase as you move to greater distance.
Electromagnetism is the force that is transmitted by light.
So if the strength of electromagnetism
is not constant,
it means that the PROPERTIES OF LIGHT ITSELF ARE CHANGING.
Once the laws of physics are allowed to vary in those equations,
THINGS HAVE TO BE REWRITTEN.
So its' back to the drawing board
for certain fundamental principles in physics.
HOMOGENEITY PROBLEM
FREEMAN: We are still a long way from becoming citizens of the cosmos.
The stars remain almost unimaginably far away.
... And, one day, we will reach it,
because what man can imagine, man can do.
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