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Beam me up Scotty...?

Even string theory sounds more probable than this...:oP

-Nekar

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Nekar wrote:
> http://news.scotsman.com/ViewArticle.aspx?articleid=2739585
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> Beam me up Scotty...?
> 
> Even string theory sounds more probable than this...:oP

Well, it's building a magnetic (i.e., quantum electrodynamical) field to 
generate gravity. I think you'd need to have a unified theory that's 
correct to make this work. So yeah, it's targeting the same stuff that 
string theory targets, except with something testable. ;-)

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> http://news.scotsman.com/ViewArticle.aspx?articleid=2739585
> 
> Beam me up Scotty...?
> 
> Even string theory sounds more probable than this...:oP

"If the theory is correct then this is science fact, not science fiction."

My God, the man's a genius! :-0

I'm loving the whole idea of "another dimension where the speed of light 
is much higher". It's almost like that quote from Futurama...

["We'll be at Fosma Prime in about 3 hours." "That's impossible - 
*nothing* can travel faster than the speed of light." "Oh yes, yes... 
That's why in 2124, we raised the speed of light." "That's *especially* 
impossible."]

Seriously though. These guys are talking about ideas that involve 
radically changing our understanding of the universe. To say that a 
working device is "5 years away" is lah-lah talk.

Still... congrats on the US DoD funding. ;-)

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Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> I'm loving the whole idea of "another dimension where the speed of light 
> is much higher". It's almost like that quote from Futurama...

That's actually a rather common science fiction conceptualization of 
hyperspace. That's why it's called hyperspace, after all.

And lots of stuff travels faster than light. Just not very far. Once you 
get more than a few wavelengths along, all the faster-than-light and 
slower-than-light amplitudes (aka, probabilities) cancel each other out.

> Seriously though. These guys are talking about ideas that involve 
> radically changing our understanding of the universe. 

I didn't get that from the article.  On the other hand, QED is pretty 
well established, so I'm not sure what "controversial theory" they could 
be addressing, other than stuff that would address the "why" of it 
rather than the "what" of it.

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     It's not feature creep if you put it
     at the end and adjust the release date.

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Darren New wrote:
> I didn't get that from the article.  On the other hand, QED is pretty 
> well established, so I'm not sure what "controversial theory" they could 
> be addressing, other than stuff that would address the "why" of it 
> rather than the "what" of it.

Actually, wikipedia has it. Cool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heim_Theory

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     It's not feature creep if you put it
     at the end and adjust the release date.

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