Might be a stupid question but if they were traveling quicker than the speed of light how can they see where they are going?...
I mean surely to travel so quick in such a meaningful distance wouldn't you need to be able to predict placements of objects "in the future" else you'll end up warp driving yourself into a rock.
If you can guarantee where you are going and the landing is clear so to speak then fair enough, but if you wanted to travel 1 light year somewhere I wonder what the "safe zone" size would be and again how accurately you could predict it.
I feel like this is a news story posted too early just to get attention. From what I read, this whole thing hasn't even gone through the scientific method and instead people published a news article that something weird has happened even though the scenario hasn't been recreated by multiple groups of people yet.
It's like when the LHC reported a faster than light particle and Fermilab later comfirmed it was not actually so.
Might be a stupid question but if they were traveling quicker than the speed of light how can they see where they are going?...
I mean surely to travel so quick in such a meaningful distance wouldn't you need to be able to predict placements of objects "in the future" else you'll end up warp driving yourself into a rock.
If you can guarantee where you are going and the landing is clear so to speak then fair enough, but if you wanted to travel 1 light year somewhere I wonder what the "safe zone" size would be and again how accurately you could predict it.
even if you had a visual on the target, it wouldn't even matter since before the jump you can only see what something looked like a few years back in time.
I wouldn't get hopes up, the result hasn't yet be repeated and didn't take place in a vacuum.
Might be a stupid question but if they were traveling quicker than the speed of light how can they see where they are going?...
I mean surely to travel so quick in such a meaningful distance wouldn't you need to be able to predict placements of objects "in the future" else you'll end up warp driving yourself into a rock.
If you can guarantee where you are going and the landing is clear so to speak then fair enough, but if you wanted to travel 1 light year somewhere I wonder what the "safe zone" size would be and again how accurately you could predict it.
Not just that but I've read articles on the Alcubierre Drive that more or less say that the warp bubble would accrue interstellar material and radiation as it travels and would then release it in a big burst when the ship drops out of FTL. Anything anywhere near the ship would get fried, so just dropping out in a "safe" position for you isn't enough.
Might be a stupid question but if they were traveling quicker than the speed of light how can they see where they are going?...
I mean surely to travel so quick in such a meaningful distance wouldn't you need to be able to predict placements of objects "in the future" else you'll end up warp driving yourself into a rock.
Your only connection/communication would be through warp, I guess.
So if you could establish a return route (and test that as far from earth as possible) you could send a probe ahead to a location you guess is safe, check the surroundings and return with that knowledge. Then establish something like a port.
But maybe they could find other possibilities to send messages. Quantum entanglement or whatnot. (Not that I really know anything about that, just riffing, here. )
Or perhaps quantum entanglement would work from within the warp bubble, so you could scout ahead and get information back "real time" with the appropriate com system.
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I mean surely to travel so quick in such a meaningful distance wouldn't you need to be able to predict placements of objects "in the future" else you'll end up warp driving yourself into a rock.
If you can guarantee where you are going and the landing is clear so to speak then fair enough, but if you wanted to travel 1 light year somewhere I wonder what the "safe zone" size would be and again how accurately you could predict it.
It's like when the LHC reported a faster than light particle and Fermilab later comfirmed it was not actually so.
Or the same one, they just know how to do it now?
even if you had a visual on the target, it wouldn't even matter since before the jump you can only see what something looked like a few years back in time.
I wouldn't get hopes up, the result hasn't yet be repeated and didn't take place in a vacuum.
Not just that but I've read articles on the Alcubierre Drive that more or less say that the warp bubble would accrue interstellar material and radiation as it travels and would then release it in a big burst when the ship drops out of FTL. Anything anywhere near the ship would get fried, so just dropping out in a "safe" position for you isn't enough.
Your only connection/communication would be through warp, I guess.
So if you could establish a return route (and test that as far from earth as possible) you could send a probe ahead to a location you guess is safe, check the surroundings and return with that knowledge. Then establish something like a port.
But maybe they could find other possibilities to send messages. Quantum entanglement or whatnot. (Not that I really know anything about that, just riffing, here.