tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post4804416550318678246..comments2024-03-28T08:06:43.198-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: The Star Trek Future Will Most Likely Never Happen SiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-1810551973361415242019-10-11T23:32:02.011-04:002019-10-11T23:32:02.011-04:00The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics.
...<i>The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics.</i><br /><br />Which high energy particle collider physics experiment shows which "interpretation" is more likely to be true than the others? What, none of the experiments? There is no evidence hinting at even the mere existence of any of the "interpretations"? As far as the experimentally-verified theory goes, the "interpretations" are believed to have no observable consequences distinguishable from each other?<br /><br />Why do so-called scientists believe these religious doctrines?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-1729158826828884292019-10-11T21:53:39.209-04:002019-10-11T21:53:39.209-04:00When last I looked, per the series' cannon, Wa...When last I looked, per the series' cannon, Warp factor was always <br />(WarpF)³c.<br />IOW, Warp 1 was = to c. (1x1x1=1)<br />Warp 2 was 8c. (2x2x2=8)<br />Warp 3 was 27c. (3x3x3=27)<br />Warp 5 is 125c, not 213c.<br />Warp 9 was 729c, not 2,083c.<br />Warp 10 was 1000c.<br /><br />Don't know where you got your values.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-24143235117643668942019-10-11T10:59:12.387-04:002019-10-11T10:59:12.387-04:00Humanity will expand throughout the galaxy, but it...Humanity will expand throughout the galaxy, but it will be in large, self-sufficient traveling colonies ("Cities in Flight" took the simple plot device of upending whole cities and taking them along on walkabout).<br /><br />It will take enough generations that by the time we get to Borg Space we won't actually look very human anymore.Malatropenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-82241191985435650632019-10-11T10:14:15.052-04:002019-10-11T10:14:15.052-04:00When America became a nation the idea that informa...When America became a nation the idea that information could travel faster than a horse or a carrier pigeon was ludicrous....and believing it possible a sign of mental illness. Then telegraphy and radio came along. Then airplanes....and jets. ALL beyond the science of the 1700s. So while impossible now there might be discoveries to be made that will allow interstellar communication and travel. And it is equally possible that there is NOTHING that will EVER allow such imaginations to come true. <br />At this point in science and knowledge we simply do not know. A prudent civilization would plan for both contingencies. But as I state frequently, we are a clever species, NOT an intelligent one.Dannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-978543904153123022019-10-11T08:23:08.942-04:002019-10-11T08:23:08.942-04:00Advancements in science will come after three thin...Advancements in science will come after three things <i>go away</i>:<br />1. Government/Leftist dictates on what is acceptable.<br />2. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics. (Die, monster! Why won't you die already, you unholy thing?)<br />3. The misapplication of statistics (wee-P value worship).McChuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10243337792601085456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-9626191802925728222019-10-11T01:05:38.058-04:002019-10-11T01:05:38.058-04:00Physics is physics, unless there is some amazing d...Physics is physics, unless there is some amazing discovery, we will probably be like the alien race in Niven's and Pournelle's "The Mote In God's Eye" forever contained within the boundaries of our solar system. I don't believe that we will see fusion drves that will provide more than a fraction of a g of accelaration for practicle manned interplanetary ships, i.e. no Epstien Drive from The Expanse novels. I do believe we will figure out how to survive on extended interplanetary flights and live elsewhere than Earth.BillBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17593147581583316765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-89516501624753890572019-10-10T21:59:47.759-04:002019-10-10T21:59:47.759-04:00I hope you're not saying the science is settle...<i>I hope you're not saying the science is settled.</i> <br /><br />No, I'm saying unless there's another revolution in physics we don't know of a way to do it. You never know what you don't know, but you can't say we don't know a lot or we don't have very useful physics. 20th century physics is very good at most everything. <br /><br />Someone once said something like, "once the theory has been demonstrated the rest is an engineering problem". The only theories I know that remotely seem able to get us there are related to warping space time, like in that link. We need more. Better. <br /><br />The 20th century started with physicists saying that except for a few minor points, physics was done. A few years later the revolution extended classical physics in quantum and relativistic domains. The trick is and always has been to extend physics without breaking the parts that work very well. The 20th century revolutions did that. <br /><br />The 21st century is starting with rumblings that the standard model has trouble, which sounds like the "clean up some messy details" of the early 20th. If we're lucky, someone will extend quantum and relativistic physics and find some new ways to do these things. <br /><br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-1730090171688211752019-10-10T19:28:26.896-04:002019-10-10T19:28:26.896-04:00Warp 9.9 is 2,083 times faster than light. The su...<i>Warp 9.9 is 2,083 times faster than light. The sun to Pluto trip is only 9.5 seconds, and Proxima Centauri is 18 hours away. Even at this speed, to go to the far side of our galaxy would take more than an average human's adult lifetime. </i><br /><br />If you recall, Kirk & Co were assigned to a quadrant (misnomer, but, hey, Scotty once referred to one of the ship's instruments as a polymath), of which there were, apparently, a large number.<br /><br />So there.<br /><br /><i>Simply, there is no known physics that can allow that.</i><br /><br />I hope you're not saying the science is settled.edutcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15033144261502435196noreply@blogger.com