Report: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18925331.200.html
Now that will be something if it true.
Now that will be something if it true.
Maj.Striker said:Indeed it would be...but even if it is, will probably be a century before it becomes an everyday reality.
Cargoman said:It took clocks centuries to move from the kings courts to the average livingroom.
It took the digital clock decades to move from NASA to the bedroom.
It took computers years to move from wallstreet to the den.
If (very big word ) this plays out , We may see it in years .
lorddarthvik said:They sit in their 'labs', and tell the rare ones who make some creative thinking to stop, because someone 200 years ago made up some kind of an idea and thats ok (even though it gives the wrong values), cause we don't want to do the thinking again from the start. So they try to make up new "complicated" theories. Thats what modern physicists do... post a new theory about what Can't be done, and your set for life.
Ask any one of them about hyperspace, and at best they'll answer: "what, you mean the one like in Star Wars, oh thats just a stupid sci-fi". They never seem to remember that Laser was just a stupid sci-fi idea too.
lorddarthvik said:They'll never get the money. Our only chance that they'll prove the theory (wrong or true) is if the military picks it up for a good look. They can get money for anything. The other problem mentioned is that with todays materilas, the main experimental modell they designed probably cannot be built.
Cragoman was right about that the jumps in research is getting faster and bigger.