The Physics That Makes Interstellar Travel Impossible

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The fact is, we aren't going to visit other star systems, and they are going to be visiting us. If they are here, it's because they've always been here, or somewhere else in our solar system.
 
That isn't a fact.

So probably need to check your own bullshit first.

Theoretically.our understanding of the world has changed over time.

Quantum physics is just one example of expansion of knowledge.

You're not a smart person.
(Also, this isn't a political thread)
 
That isn't a fact.

So probably need to check your own bullshit first.

Theoretically.our understanding of the world has changed over time.

Quantum physics is just one example of expansion of knowledge.

You're not a smart person.
(Also, this isn't a political thread)
Like a big dummy, you didn't watch the video.
 
Oh look at that label in the top left hand corner!
"Altered or Synthetic Content"
A video carefully curated to reinforce Rightguide's existing totalitarian biases.

...and now he wants to share his newly created "facts" with us.
How nice of him.

Meanwhile, back on Epstein Island.....
 
Like a big dummy, you didn't watch the video.
I don't need to.
You posted it.

Your position is always wanting to be intellectually above board but typically just bullshit.

Susskind is a great theorist and his theories aren't immediately dismissed, but all of history shows that we have found a way or method of technology to do things we don't understand in the current moment. And so we will eventually do the same again.
 
In wondering whether it is possible to break the light barrier, we are like people in the 18th Century wondering whether it is possible to break the sound barrier when the fastest thing we've actually got is a racehorse.
 
I drank less of the hopium. I don't see interplanetary travel ever happening. At the peak of the industrial age, in the wealthiest period of the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, space travel went only as far as the moon. We can't spare the the resources to put people on Mars. We can't bring them back alive. But our European heritage of expansion around the globe is the basis of our religious belief in infinite expansion forever. The believers handwave away the technical difficulties, but scifi fantasies are meeting the hard crunch of a nation in decline struggling to pay basic expenses. NASA's job now is maintaining satellites for TV, internet, and drones, until short trips to low earth orbit become too expensive and too flagrantly wasteful of fuel that could be used for home heating and other basic energy needs.
 
Under the laws of physics as we know them, especially with our current technology, interstellar travel is beyond our grasp.

That doesn't mean it will always remain that way. I hear the LHC has made some interesting discoveries in quantum physics which could change the game completely once we understand things more than we do now.
 
Under the laws of physics as we know them, especially with our current technology, interstellar travel is beyond our grasp.

That doesn't mean it will always remain that way. I hear the LHC has made some interesting discoveries in quantum physics which could change the game completely once we understand things more than we do now.
Not often I agree with this dude, but we're on the same page in response to the OP.
 
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