star trek for the masses

[remesses]

Has any body ever created a WARP FIELD even if it is just a small one... and how???

[naz_nomad]

Yes I have ... but if I told you how, then everybody would want one

[jake-the-peg]

General relativity tell us that all matter warps space.

You have a tiny space warp that surrounds you as youwalk down the street

It's not much though the entire sun only warps space enough to deflect starlight by less than a thousanth of a degree.

Star Trek Warping space and travelling through it is, I'm afraid, fantasy and likely to stay that way

[jake-the-peg]

Whoops have I just revealed Naz's secret?

[ugly_bob]

I regularly create one the morning after a curry and a few beers. Warps the door.

[Loosehead]

I think though that a local Rugby club near me has a Warped Field, it slopes in 2 directions at once, makes winning the toss significant.

[heathfield]

They exist primarily in front-loading washing machines. Where else do you think those disappearing socks go?

[Catso]

I believe some scientist or mathmatician has developed a theoretical basis for how this could work. It was something to do with locally compressing space/time in front of an object and expanding it behind. Seriously.

[jake-the-peg]

Somebody like Alcubierre?
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/research/war p/ideachev.html#alcub

All you need is some negative energy! - I'll nip down the shops then :c)

[remesses]

what do you mean negative energy???
anti-matter? what is it?

[jake-the-peg]

http://www.physics.hku.hk/~tboyce/sf/topics/wo rmhole/wormhole.html

Much of this is *highly* speculative -if's built on maybes.

But essentialluy negative energy is related to the suppression of virtual particles in a quantum vacuum