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Nobody undertakes to assert unequivocally, but the overwhelming most scientists believe that ships of the future will move much faster than the speed of light. Compared to distance between stars, the speed of light is negligible. Way to the nearest neighboring star systems (like Alpha Centauri) will last more than four years at the speed of light. To make the flight lasted at least a week, our ship will need minimum cruising speed of at least 25 thousand times more speed of light! But the closest inhabited planet may be on a distance of 25 to 200 light years from Earth. In theory superlight flights are possible. There are two main theories for the implementation of such flights: 1. Wormholes. Theory is based on that space can be curved like a sheet of paper so that the place of the beginning and end of the flight will coincide or come very close to each other to a friend. Then through the received “tunnel” the object will move from place of start to place of travel end much sooner than light needs in order to overcome the same path in a straight line. 2. Warp engine. This is still a science fiction theory about a certain an engine that will allow you to get from one point of the universe to another faster than light. However, modern knowledge of people is not yet enough to build ships or equipment for overcoming space in the above ways. These ways similar in that both are based on Einstein’s theory of relativity. In addition, the question of energy arises: how to reduce costs power consumption and how to create and apply the necessary charge “negative energy” needed to create an enabling environment for operation of superlight engines. Submit a literary starship, where the crew walks as if the ship is on Earth and does not fly anywhere. This means that the ship itself creates gravitational field for crew comfort. In deep space there are no such fields exist. Given the possibility of creating acceleration inside the ship, it takes little effort to imagine that such a force can be created also beyond, thus moving our spaceship in the universe. Such a “rocket-free” cosmo-engine would become the greatest breakthrough in space travel technology. Moreover, to perform superlight flights need a special method of storage and energy use. Nuclear reactors are more real, but unsafe output, and the quantum energy of vacuum is poorly understood and is still at the stage of empirical research.
Sergey Vasilenkov
Universe
