v(observer) > c(vacuum)

Just a little too much here for a Twitter post, so I’ll actually throw this on the blog:

Fox News reporting “Faster-Than-Light Travel Might Be Possible” as if it’s some new idea. Now, I’ll admit, there are some new bases for this theory, however, I just want to point out that the fundamental principle of a “bubble” that distorts space-time such that the local traveler’s v is < c, yet to an outside observer v > c (If that little bit of math there is confusing, then you won’t care about this post anyways.) is not a new one.

In fact, I researched this for a science project in 1996, largely based on the theories put forth by the book The Physics of Star Trek , which proposed that very idea that is now being reported, 12 years later, as “new.” Of course, in the book, the theories focus more along the lines of energy of collapsed stars, but the new theories look towards “dark energy/matter” for possible means.

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