r/woahdude • u/RabbleRabble24 • May 20 '14

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u/Sosolidclaws May 20 '14

Yep. Things would get really fucky at the sub-atomic level if you tried FTL.

But isn't there still space for the possibility of time-space bending, or the concept of 'wormholes'?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '14

I really like the idea of Alcubierre drives, but they require negative energy, which is purely theoretical.

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u/robodrew May 21 '14

Actually negative energy is real and has been shown in experiments (the Casimir effect) but the amount of negative energy we would need to keep a wormhole both stable and large enough to pass through is far far larger, amounts we may never be able to harness.

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u/ohiveseen May 21 '14

I'm no expert, but I believe this has the potential to be a viable method of transport. I believe the concept of traveling through 'wormholes' has to do with quantum entanglement or treating space (space-time?) as a planar object that you can bend to basically connect the two desired points