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Which Method of FTL Travel is the Most Believable?

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Hypothetical Methods of FTL Travel  

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  1. 1. Which method of FTL travel is most believable to you?

    • Warp Drive - Bending a confined region of space around a spacecraft.
      10
    • Hyperspace Jump - Interpreting and mapping the fourth spatial dimension to instantly jump from one point to another.
      2
    • Brute Force - Somehow conventionally thrust a spacecraft beyond the speed of light.
      0
    • Tachyon Sailing - Detecting streams of faster-than-light particles and hitching a ride on them.
      0
    • Negative Velocity - Finding some bizarre way of travelling one way and arriving somewhere in the opposite direction.
      0
    • Black Hole - Dive into a singularity and hope you don't end up scattered across another universe.
      1
    • Intertwined Universe - Entering some kind of parallel and elongated universe and exiting at the desired location (for example, "Slipspace" in the Halo series).
      2
    • Wormholes - Narrow "bridges" of 3D space through 4D space.
      7

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11 hours ago, cubinator said:

Alcubierre/warp drive seems at least plausible if you had obscene amounts of energy (say, a large antimatter engine, like in Star Trek). I don't see anything obvious in relativity that says it absolutely can't happen. You might end up with some weird time jumps happening, though, and it's still dubious whether we can get/manufacture enough antimatter and store it adequately.

 

24 minutes ago, RealKerbal3x said:

Probably the Alcubierre drive. All you need is some way of producing a crapton of energy and the ability to store antimatter.

Aren't you both leaving out the negative mass/energy thing?

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