Possible life found 140 light years away

[Bullflop]

Those in the know what McClay might do without Jerry around to muck things up aren't revealing it.
Whatever the answer to that question may be, we'll have to await Jerry's absence to find out.

 

[Streifenkarl]

Those in the know what McClay might do without Jerry around to muck things up aren't revealing it.
Whatever the answer to that question may be, we'll have to await Jerry's absence to find out.

Uhm, wrong thread my friend? And you even edited it?

 

[Pass2Run]

Meant to say "life is most likely everywhere."

Or once has been or will be in the future.

The universe is interesting. Quantum physics, quantum collapse, entanglement, relativity is just scratching the surface.

Time as we perceive it doesn't even really exist.

 

[Pass2Run]

It's actually not that "uncertain" about FTL travel. This video explains it best imo.



So nothing will beat Einstein in the future. I'm not saying we will never go places, but whatever the way of reaching far away solar systems will be, it won't be in a space ship traveling faster than light.

You'd have to bend space and time.

It's possible to travel faster than light. Just look at entanglement.

 

[Bullflop]

Uhm, wrong thread my friend? And you even edited it?

Yep -- it seems you caught me off guard, there, bro! Living proof that good intentions aren't enough.

 

[Pass2Run]

It's actually not that "uncertain" about FTL travel. This video explains it best imo.



So nothing will beat Einstein in the future. I'm not saying we will never go places, but whatever the way of reaching far away solar systems will be, it won't be in a space ship traveling faster than light.

If you haven't checked out the channel "Astrum", you will probably like it.

This talks about how life can travel backwards in time, and into the future.

My theory is that quantum collapse happens when our brain waves interact with it a certain way...

The speed of light isn't finite. It can vary...going faster or slower than we measure it. So, figuring that out could be key to traveling faster than light.

Never say never.

 

[Streifenkarl]

You'd have to bend space and time.

It's possible to travel faster than light. Just look at entanglement.

That's why I said. We might get to these places some other way. Just not by "classical" light speed travel. And even if you bend spacetime, then everyone you know will be dead once you return. Not very practical either.

Reaching other solar systems or even galaxies just isn't that appealing to me as it's too much of a fantasy still. Stuff like terra forming or building space colonies on other planets of this system is far more interesting. Or even deep sea exploration as we hardly know our own planet that well yet. I even like movies like The Martian better than all that star Trek stuff.

 

[triplets_93]

It might as well be 120 Million Light Years away...

 

[Runwildboys]

when you look at what it took for humans to make it here, it really shows how stacked the deck was against us.

and thus one has to consider that when theorizing about intelligent life out there.


There seems a decent chance that only one out of a million planets can possibly evolve sentient life.

and out of that number only a fraction will have the conditions work out to let it happen.

Exactly my thoughts.

 

[Runwildboys]

Uhm, wrong thread my friend? And you even edited it?

I thought I somehow jumped into a wormhole to the wrong thread!

 

[Runwildboys]

That's why I said. We might get to these places some other way. Just not by "classical" light speed travel. And even if you bend spacetime, then everyone you know will be dead once you return. Not very practical either.

Reaching other solar systems or even galaxies just isn't that appealing to me as it's too much of a fantasy still. Stuff like terra forming or building space colonies on other planets of this system is far more interesting. Or even deep sea exploration as we hardly know our own planet that well yet. I even like movies like The Martian better than all that star Trek stuff.

Travelling at speeds approaching the speed of light will cause time to slow down for you, just as intense gravity would, but I believe utilizing a wormhole, or otherwise warping spacetime would not.

 

[gtb1943]

It's actually not that "uncertain" about FTL travel. This video explains it best imo.



So nothing will beat Einstein in the future. I'm not saying we will never go places, but whatever the way of reaching far away solar systems will be, it won't be in a space ship traveling faster than light.

So basically you are saying that we are so smart and knowledgeable that the question is settled.

This is the height of intellectual arrogance.

History has proven you wrong again and again.

 

[nobody]

It's actually not that "uncertain" about FTL travel. This video explains it best imo.



So nothing will beat Einstein in the future. I'm not saying we will never go places, but whatever the way of reaching far away solar systems will be, it won't be in a space ship traveling faster than light.

Unless you bypass Relativity by bending space-time. Like using an Alcubierre Drive (aka Warp drive) if we can figure it out. It's mathematically possible. Right now, the concept requires negative mass, but they're constantly working on the idea. So you might be mistaken by saying it won't be in a space ship traveling faster than light. A ship utilizing warp would indeed travel faster than light to an outside observer.

 

[Runwildboys]

Unless you bypass Relativity by bending space-time. Like using an Alcubierre Drive (aka Warp drive) if we can figure it out. It's mathematically possible. Right now, the concept requires negative mass, but they're constantly working on the idea. So you might be mistaken by saying it won't be in a space ship traveling faster than light. A ship utilizing warp would indeed travel faster than light to an outside observer.

I'm not sure if time dilation would be a problem, using warp drive, but it certainly wouldn't be as much of an issue as it would otherwise be.

 

[gtb1943]

I'm not sure if time dilation would be a problem, using warp drive, but it certainly wouldn't be as much of an issue as it would otherwise be.

there are multiple theories about space and possible facets like some call subspace or space plus. Might not be a problem doing FTL there. That is why those claiming FTL is impossible are just mouthing the current conservative interpretation of the universe.