![]() ![]() In any case, NASA placed the warp drive project under the direction of Dr. Needless to say, all this business about the velocity of light as a maximum speed limit, and of “bending” or “warping” space-time, falls out of Einstein’s two relativity theories. Taking the velocity of light as the speed limit, the one warp factor might be how far light can travel in a year, two warp factors might be how far it can travel in two years, and so on. That’s a “space warp”.īy parity of reasoning, Star Trek’s “warp factors” are not measures of “speed” in any conventional sense, but rather of how much distance or space can be “warped” at a given time. Then, move your hands back to the original position while the ant stays in position, but on the other hand it was trying to get to. Now the ant doesn’t have to travel the string at all it just is “there”. Now, bring your hands together, so that the ends of the string actually touch the same spot. It will take a certain amount of time for the ant to travel along the string between your hands, because the ant can’t travel any faster. Let the ant’s walking along the string represent the velocity of light. Imagine suspending a string between your two hands, and on the string, there’s an ant. It’s more like bending space-time while you stay still.Ī simple illustration might make this clearer. ![]() ![]() Whatever one chooses to call these agencies, whether our official names here on this site, or their less helpful and descriptive government titles, they both share this publicly stated goal of having the USA be “warp capable,” and by “warp capable” – yes – they do mean space warps, as in Star Trek “ahead warp factor five” sorts of stuff, faster-than-light travel, except it really is not travel or moving from one place to another. named it) also known as The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. NASA of course stands for Never A Straight Answer, and is also sometimes known as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and DARPA is, of course, The Diabolically Apocalyptic Research Projects Agency (as one of our regular readers J.B. Joseph P Farrell – If you’re a regular reader here, you may recall that from time to time I’ve mentioned, or even blogged about, both NASA’s and DARPA’s goal to have the USA be “warp capable” by the end of the century. ![]()
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