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Originally Posted by I_H8_Crawford
Just curious - I am not a physicist but what if scientists figure out how to create and control anti-matter?
Would that adjust the numbers of the energy needed to consume for such a trip??
Also, on another note, wouldn't the most feasible way for humans to travel be something along the lines of the movie Event Horizon - where they essentially create a mini-black hole that folds space-time, and then just rip a hole through it and unfold it again?? Is that worm-hole technology, or is worm-hole travel limited to the theoretical worm holes that are out there in space already and we just have to find them?  |
Well we can already create and control anti-matter, just not in very significant quantities.
But the amount of energy required for the trip wouldn't change, it's just a super dense and effecient method of storage of that energy is required (so that the ship doesn't have to be the size of a moon). Anti-matter would be good if we could contain it. But to create it we would need that amount of energy (minimum, assuming no losses) in the first place. So we'd need to build something that would harness a significant portion of the sun's energy for a few years (EDIT: think a solar cell the size of the earth, or a Niven ring, or a Dyson sphere), create and store the antimatter, and then fuel up the ship and rock!
For the wormhole space warping thing, there's lots of theory about that kind of stuff but very little real knowledge. Yet.