I feel like generation ships will appear first, but by the time they actually get to the next star will have invented something better
3 weeks ago | 2,200
Imagine if a generation ship is traveling towards another star but only to discover humans are already there when they arrive and they said "oh yeah we just discovered how wormholes works just a year ago".
3 weeks ago | 1,100
The chasm between wormhole existing on paper versus in reality is wider than the galaxy.
3 weeks ago | 159
Realistically speaking, it’d probably be the generation ships, but if we get lucky and have a great understanding of wormholes, that could pan out.
3 weeks ago | 520
Something in between a wormhole and a warpdrive. Something that utilizes both of their goods and takes out whats bad so its much easier.
3 weeks ago (edited) | 83
Apparently, 53% of people think we’ll develop the ability to rip a stable hole in spacetime before we learn how to stuff 1000 people into a self-sustained phallus ship. Truly the reason why we haven’t done either yet, and likely won’t for a long time.
3 weeks ago | 58
Probably the most realistic way of us getting there is generation ship, idk though.
3 weeks ago | 48
People dont realize how crazy antimatter propulsion is. Being even able to reach .1-.5c (10-50% light speed) lets us reach other planets in days and other systems in years. Furthermore, its proven, real science that we are very close to being able to utilize. We already produce small amounts of antimatter and have proven it could be produced, stored, and when mixed with regular matter converts to 100% energy (nuclear fission only converts about 0.1% mass to energy and chemical rockets 0.0000001%). Wormholes and warp speed are cool in theory, but we have no idea if they’re even physically possible, how we’d even begin to create one, and most of all how we’d keep one stable. Antimatter rockets very much could be created, and we have all that science to back it. The only thing we can’t do is actually create antimatter at real scale. Right now we only can create nanograms worth (basically individual particles) and can only really trap it in such small amounts. If those numbers are able to scale up over time then we could very well make one. As for warp drives…. Every sense of physics would make it a headache. Having a localized space time bubble moving faster than light means you would have to break laws of physics to send signals. That means once its moving its uncontrollable. Not only that, if you did manage to decelerate somehow, you’d create a cone of destruction at the destination equivalent to a massive gamma burst. Oh also it would take more energy than the observable universe to do it 🤷♂️ Edit: Wormholes are a really cool theory but they are very unlikely possible. The single biggest reason actually comes down to “nature bans time travel.” Because a wormhole can connect two places that experience different gravity/time dialation, you’d be creating a time paradox. The chronology protection conjecture by Hawking explains this in detail, but it is theoretically impossible to create anything that would be acting in such a manner. Additionally, anything entering that wormhole will instantly collapse it. This is because anything that adds energy (even photons) adds curvature, which collapses the wormhole geometry. This also can cause a black hole to form, so trying to make one can backfire in the worst possible way possible. As for generation ships, the reason that wont happen first is very simple. A generation ship is still insanely difficult to figure out how to even start developing, and you have to figure out the logistics of getting a ton of people happy in a confined tin can for 4,000 years. That’s isn’t a typo either. At .001-.01c it would likely take somewhere around 4,000 years to reach Alpha Centauri at 4.3 lightyears. Because an antimatter ship traveling .1-.5c will reach it in 8-40 years, if the technology catches up within ~3,950 years of the generation ship finally somehow being figured out and leaving, the antimatter ship still arrives first. Antimatter propulsion is pretty far out, but its definitely not 4,000 years out. We also will almost certainly have found a way to shield the radiation produced from annihilation or what i think is far more likely find a way to redirect it into even more thrus
3 weeks ago (edited) | 63
I have a feeling human wont even see 100 year in future considering how our politicans are these days.
3 weeks ago | 2
The only problem with a generation ship is it might be hard to find enough people willing to die on it to make a population big enough to last the journey
3 weeks ago | 3
Its the saddest part that people actually believe wormholes are real
3 weeks ago | 3
Realistically? It’s impossible. 4 light years away is way too much for us to go to. Generation ship theoretically would be physically possible, but I see no way it becomes a priority on this planet. Everyone are too busy hating or killing each other.
3 weeks ago | 119
I feel like generation ships won’t work. Future generations won’t care about making it to the next star, they won’t sign their lives away to do a science experiment just because the first generations wanted to and they’ll probably just head back to earth before reaching it
3 weeks ago | 2
Probably something similar to the ships from Avatar. A combination of solar/lazer sails and iether nuclear fusion or antimatter engines. Future ships may use Accubere warp drive
3 weeks ago (edited) | 3
With the way we understand the universe as it is now, only the Generation ship is actually possible. While I hope we discover a much better method, I am not sure we can.
3 weeks ago | 4
Honestly, it's really hard to tell But I really like how a warp drive could work although I do think that it's gonna take a couple of at least decades for us to first Invent it and then later perfect it
3 weeks ago | 2
The next star is only 4 light years away. We reachable in 1 lifetime. Amd by then, age will have probably be prolonged so none - regular high speed space travel isvthe answer
2 weeks ago | 1
It’s definitely worm holes with generation ships because a wormhole get you anywhere you wanna go and with a ship like that and boom
3 weeks ago | 0
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