seeing if anyone knows about space/physics

now that I think about that they show something off like that in "mass effect" its just a game but it was cool how they would explain instant transmission or FTL drives

It would have huge applications in computing. But it'll be some time before we can make it work as a teleporter. At the far fringe of what we currently consider possible is long range instantaneous comms. But as it stands, messing with entangled pairs screws the entanglement. We need to fix that first before we can lose the latency in those phone calls to Pluto. Speaking of which...

I wouldn't say I'm quite an official physicist yet, but I've done research and would like to say I know a lot about space/physics. I've self educated from MITs site along with tons of books and other resources. (I suggest checking out the Open Courseware MIT has available). The math side of things can be pretty difficult but if you're just interested in what's going on you can just read through books and research papers and try and ignore the calculus and tensors. But yeah I'd like to say I know about space/physics considering I've written a paper and presented it at a couple of expos. (It was on Dark Matter, Particle Physics in relation to Gravity, and Spatial Properties) Mass Effect as far as I can tell isn't that far from the mark with FTL drives, Biotics, and space. Space is actually constructed out of a field similar to the "Mass Effect" field in Mass Effect. More or less they are just fields of nothing. The actual way to make a FTL drive would be by causing massive displacements in these nothing fields and propelling yourself through space. The only way that I've found to do this so far involves massive amounts of light and electricity. Some other physicists did this in a lab recently when making light into matter. NASA's FTL drive follows a similar principle but uses low frequency light such as radio waves and microwaves within a chamber. Microwave Ovens actually have similar technology within them. (Steins;Gate really hit the mark lol) The Magnetron in a Microwave Oven has the ability to manipulate space if used properly. It converts eletric and magnetic fields into microwaves and bounces them around in the chamber in the microwave. And that's how it cooks your food. Theoretically if you upped the amperage, you'd get gamma rays. Jinsei is on the right track for Teleportation though. Entanglement and Quantum Teleportation are the most likely to be done currently. You really wouldn't want to warp space so what you'd need to do is convert whatever needs teleported into raw data and transmit it along some wavelength like radio waves or something. You'd probably need some sort of tower to bounce the data along, but right now we don't have a tower with enough storage and processing power to be capable of such feats. I will end stating another interesting thing. Radio Waves/Microwaves could be a great power sources if exploited. Using resonance you could set up a power source that works like our radio antennas, and wouldn't need an external source such as oil or nuclear power. Taking the concept of solar panels and going down to radio waves and microwaves we could power humanity off of radio waves. And Radio Waves travel MUCH further than Sunlight. And using the concept of resonance using these radio waves wouldn't even hinder the actual waves. Not to mention how many radio waves are around us. "But where's the profit in free energy" (lol) I'll end the little rant there.

Hey guys! I think Cyan-san know something about space and physics! lol One of the biggest obstacles in this whole space thing is still the fact that it's so fuckin' big man. Imagine if you were able to do the speed of light. Now drink a double shot espresso. Now you do TWICE the speed of light. It'd still take your ass 2 years to reach the closest star. (after the sun of course)

Jinsei indeed... To traverse space beyond our system we will have to discover FTL or gating of some sort. Torch drives only get you so far so fast. We would also have to speed up or slow down slowly to not kill the crew. Our bodies can handle moving at high speeds in a sense: Standing still on the equator you are actually moving with the earth spinning at ~1600 km/hr. The earth orbits the sun at 107,000 km/hr. The sun moves around the relative center of the galaxy at 792,000 km/hr. The galaxy is moving at an estimated 2.1 mil. km/hr. The speed of light is 1.09 billion km/hr. Maybe captain Tashiro was right, we are just flotsam in the sea of space after the big bang. In cosmology the scales just get obscene in size. Fun stuff.

Date: April 20, 2015 Source: University of Maryland Summary: As two galaxies enter the final stages of merging, scientists have theorized that the galaxies' supermassive black holes will form a "binary," or two black holes in such close orbit they are gravitationally bound to one another. In a new study, astronomers at the University of Maryland present direct evidence of a pulsing quasar, which may substantiate the existence of black hole binaries. "We believe we have observed two supermassive black holes in closer proximity than ever before," said Suvi Gezari, assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Maryland and a co-author of the study. "This pair of black holes may be so close together that they are emitting gravitational waves, which were predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity." Black holes typically gobble up matter, which accelerates and heats up, emitting electromagnetic energy and creating some of the most luminous beacons in the sky called quasars. When two black holes orbit as a binary, they absorb matter cyclically, leading theorists to predict that the binary's quasar would respond by periodically brightening and dimming. In that data, the astronomers found quasar PSO J334.2028+01.4075, which has a very large black hole of almost 10 billion solar masses and emits a periodic optical signal that repeats every 542 days. The quasar's signal was unusual because the light curves of most quasars are arrhythmic. To verify their finding, the research team performed rigorous calculations and simulations and examined additional data, including photometric data from the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey and spectroscopic data from the FIRST Bright Quasar Survey. "The discovery of a compact binary candidate supermassive black hole system like PSO J334.2028+01.4075, which appears to be at such close orbital separation, adds to our limited knowledge of the end stages of the merger between supermassive black holes," said UMD astronomy graduate student Tingting Liu, the paper's first author.

I believe that studying some of Nikola Tesla's work could provide a foundation for some of the ideas here. Some of his more advanced work may need to be reverse engineered from his earlier work as some of his ideas were mostly thought out in his head and any documentation was snatched up my the government and used as a basis for later top secret projects that are likely still ongoing.

Blasphemer! *gathers mob with plasma torches and tuning forks*