Hyperspace Drive?

[Suicide Junkie]

That was in reference to wilhil's examples.

The laws of physics are based on empirical testing. You can't undo existing experiments, which cover an incredible amount of stuff. Good luck to you on the fringes, but don't come home without repeatable, empirical evidence.

[David E. Gervais]

My thoughts on this interesting thread,..

I'm tired of being reincarnated, I want to go home.


Cheers!

[StarDragon]

If you carefully read the linked article of the originator, it never says when or how the Doctor lost his "eyes, hands, and hearing" to an "accident". So where did they go, into this other dimension?

I only have one comment to make: USS Eldridge...

I am sick of people ripping off Einstien, they see the movie and basicly say the same thing like they originated the idea lol! If anyone actually can prove they succeded I am sure the US Navy would be very interested in how not to screw up anymore... (for future stealth ships).

In case some people aren't familiar Einstien had a Unified Field Theory but never officially finished it.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

You should read the C&C Red Alert backstory, now that is some Einstein-mangling.....

[RCCCL]

I think most of you are missing the Important word in this little bit of sentence

The theoretical engine

In other words this is a theory. They wish to test this theory. And they would like a grant to test this theory.
I see no reason why they couldn't get this grant. Goverments seem to give Research Grants all the time to people with kooky ideas and people who want to prove obvious things like "Doing jumping jacks for 5 hours straight while smoking and drinking is bad for you"

Besides most of what people take for granted as facts about space are still only theories. Just a few days ago I was reading a Scientific America magazine that had a story about a new theory that suggests our universe may actually be only 2 dimensions with the 3rd just being an illusion, kind of like a holligram. It said that this thoery actually cleared up some conflicting data that A 3 demensional universe created.

[ant pant:]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Hmm...It's possible, but I don't think it's probable.

[Parasite]

Also leaving the Earth at Lunch and getting to the Moon in time for Dinner is not going faster than light. Even if the moon in question is around Mars.

It kind of sounds like a reactionless drive they are trying to make. Something like the ones in Alan Dean Foster books.

[Raapys]

Well, as someone mentioned, the probability that computers/humans work in that 'dimension' is far from likely, so how were they planning on getting *out* of it once started?

[Suicide Junkie]

It is not a theoretical engine in the scientific sense, but rather just a hypothetical one.

You don't get a scientific theory without evidence.

[El_Phil]

SJ has hit the nail on the head, it's not even theoretical. It's an idea someone had and has written convincingly about.

But it is s a hell of a theory. Ballsy doesn't even cover it. For it to work you need not only four new dimensions above the usual three and time, you also need two new fundamental forces.

Hell you even need "Graviphotons" so you can "couple together gravity and electromagnetism and allow the conversion of electromagnetic energy into gravitational and vice-versa."

Still the New Scientist has me convinced that it's at least worth looking at. There's something there, his theory is at least self consistent and his predictions match up.

Not that I think it's likely but it's 'Blue Sky' research, the same approach that gave us blue lasers (DVDs) and radar.

This may not work, hell it may be utter rubbish, but that's no reason not to do it.