Timeline for Would it be possible to ride a gravitational wave?
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| May 10, 2019 at 6:23 | history | protected | L.Dutch♦ | ||
| Nov 15, 2017 at 14:43 | comment | added | user535733 | Creating the wave would take a terrible toll on the inhabitants of that star system. | |
| Nov 15, 2017 at 14:19 | answer | added | user44742 | timeline score: -1 | |
| Oct 31, 2016 at 1:13 | answer | added | Vaesper | timeline score: -1 | |
| Oct 30, 2016 at 23:29 | answer | added | David W. | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 18, 2016 at 15:37 | history | edited | ckersch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 18, 2016 at 5:27 | comment | added | sh1 | @ckersch, I realised after I found an image of a standing wave that the rate of travel is still constrained to light speed, as the transfer from peak to peak still happens at the wave speed. Then I realised that you could set the waves at right angles to each other and travel diagonally for faster travel... but then I wondered, why not just travel laterally though a single wave? I don't even know which way gravity waves compress space. | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 14:52 | comment | added | ckersch | @HDE226868 This idea was inspired exactly bu Alcubierre drives. I was reading about them and wondered if it would be possible to make something like one using a standing wave pattern between two sources of gravity waves. | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 14:37 | comment | added | ckersch | @sh1 Second attempt is sopt on. Added the words "standing wave" to my question since that's exactly what I meant. | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 14:36 | history | edited | ckersch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 17, 2016 at 5:26 | comment | added | sh1 | Struggling to visualise this. My first attempt had a ship travelling subluminally in compressed space that followed a wave at light speed; but that's not faster than light. Second attempt; travelling subluminally through compressed space in a standing wave between two gravitational waves; carefully timed to cross from compressed space to compressed space at the moments the waveform inverts, where your speed would be almost arbitrary but set, fundamentally, by the wavelength of the gravitational waves. Is that second thing what you mean? | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 4:03 | comment | added | Xandar The Zenon | This stuff about gravitational waves bothers me. I mean, we're essentiallY saying we detected some kind of energy wave from two celestial bodies crashing into each other, so going off of Einstein's theory we detected a gravitational wave. And if we detected a gravitational wave, then Einstein's theory is correct. So it was definitely a warp in space and time, even though we cannot see time. | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 0:56 | history | edited | HDE 226868♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 17, 2016 at 0:30 | answer | added | HDE 226868♦ | timeline score: 16 | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 0:26 | comment | added | HDE 226868♦ | It sounds a lot like an Alcubierre drive. | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 0:19 | answer | added | Cort Ammon | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 0:09 | answer | added | JDługosz | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 0:05 | history | asked | ckersch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |