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Not sure if this is the right place to ask but I still don't understand how Harold White is generating a warp field. He has some oscillating capacitor that is supposed to generate negative energy? But I thought only the casimir effect between two very close metal plates can generate negative energy?...

So a new player has arrived on the fusion market. And this time it's not some crazy italian professor, but Lockheed Martin, and they're planning to have a working full-scale prototype in 2018. http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/02/new-google-solve-for-x-lockheed.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAsRFV...

So nextbigfuture has posted a summary of Woodward's book (making starships and stargates) on wormholes, warp and the mach effect, is there anyone else here who has read the book and can shine some light on it?

GeeGee, sometimes i think that maybe all the other more advanced civilizations have miniaturized themselves, and they are actually embedded in the virtual particles or quantum foam that permeates the universe, which we only see as random noise.

Incredible.. so if this all holds true, it might be possible that in the next 20 years we will have covered the entire milky way with warp probes? Then you do have to wonder why we haven't seen warp probes around our neighborhood yet, the Fermi paradox springs to mind. Unless all the aliens are so a...

Chrismb please ignore the troll and concentrate on giving us a comprehensive summary of nebel's arguments. When you starve a troll of attention he will find new feeding grounds.

This is why i always use tinfoil compilers.

I can't wait...

I've read Frank Herbert's Dune books (all of them) about 4 or 5 times and the first one more than 10 times.. But now i've stopped re-reading them, 10 times is too much! Anything by Jack Vance is worth a re-read, especially the Demon Princes, Tschai (Planet of Adventure), Tales of the Dying Earth (cu...

What kind of new phenomena can we expect if this is true?

Maybe this is a dumb question, but does the hawking radiation really provide so much energy that it will be easy to move the large amount of mass a black hole is?

rashudo, I am most definitely not qualified to discuss the physics behind the theory, however, my meager understanding leads me to suggest a qualification of your question. Inertia is not caused by most DISTANT matter. It is caused by most matter. It just so happens that most of it (like 99.9999%) ...

Paul,

If inertia is caused by 'most distant matter', does this mean that inertia was different shortly after the big bang, when that 'most distant matter' was not quite so distant? And if true, what kind of consequences would that have on our understanding of such events?