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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Just for discussions sake, if humans decided to try and go there to explore it (assuming there was a good chance that it was habitable), how would scientists approach this? It seems that physically going there by conventional methods might be impossible, but what about worm holes and interdimensional travel? Or space bending? Are these real theories, or are they just science fiction?
And assuming that they are real possibilities, how long would it take to develop the technology? Are we looking at centuries for a realistic time table?
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None of the above are anything but theoretical concepts of things that might work IF they exist. There is a good chance they don't actually exist at all.
There is no way to work towards any technology or research toward utilizing worm holes, etc. As with all things in the Universe, we'd just have to look where we'd expect them to be based on those theories and hope to stumble upon them accidentally if it actually did exist.
And the timeline of any development and research is always dependant on politics and money. Most of our space exploration would not have happened if the Nazi's didn't develop good rockets in WWII and subsequentely the Cold War brought us into a Space Race. And there are always technological breakthroughs that really change the pace way things are done to speed things up.
First was the computer, supposedly next is nanotechnology which lets us design technologies and stuctures at a molecular (maybe even atomic) level giving us amazing machines or materials with amazing physical properties...also maybe even billions of microscopic robots that would do all the work for you.