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[setiman]

Ziggy, I am a bit confused over the power demands you envision to travel through space. Are you talking normal propulsive forces or forces to exceed the speed of light, if ever?

You might also want to visit the fusion labs at Princeton, you may become amazed at the power that is already available.

Lastly what does it take for constant acceleration in a void (which space essentially is)? With constant acceleration one could theoretically exceed the speed of light. Please note I said theoretically.

Cheers.

[eburacum45]

No, unfortunately not. If you just continue to accelerate in a void you simply get closer and closer to the speed of light.
Even if you converted half the galaxies in the universe to antimatter and used them to annihilate the other half of the universe to provide thrust you would only get to 0.999999(etc) c.


To travel faster than light you have to become separate from our universe, perhaps by using one of Miguel Alcubierre's warp bubbles.

Even then you would need to be smaller than an atom to fit inside such a bubble, as they require vast amounts of energy to create if you want to travel faster than light.

[imported_Ziggy]

I'm talking about useing all the energy to bend/warp space-time, not physically use all the energy as thrust. That's a BIG problem in FTL propulsion systems, you needs ALOT of energy.

[corecomand]

now see its looking good but you are still considering relitivity and the sorts unproven things to base how much energy is realy required. Fusion is a very usefull srouce but still it seems your thinking take your energy source and convert it. why not use the energy source its self as thrust.