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Originally Posted by Zaps
It doesn't sound that way to me. If you did you would understand that it's not a matter of hoping a lab comes up with something new. It's going to take a wholesale reconstruction of fundamental physics as we know it, and there is not even one single sound reason to suppoe that can or will happen, or even needs to.
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I would have to agree with Carl on this, we don't know what is going to happen in the near or distant future, we can't assume that Physics, or any other applied science is at it's end. The whole issue of the beginning of the universe is all about trying to understand new physic of creation that
could when fully understood allow time travel or interstellar travel, who knows!
I wouldn't want to think that my going to University was not worth it if there was no more to discover.
Discoveries always start with simple questions and the original thread is just that; a simple question that would like some answers and it may take some out of box thinking and discoveries to do this. What to say that when we get out into the interstellar space that we might be able to use what is could be more powerful energies waiting to be tapped. Just the latest discovery from Voyager suggests that Comic radiation is severely filter before getting into our solar system means there could be way more energy out there that could be used to propel craft further and faster and maybe we could use that energy to protect ourselves from that harmful radiation.
Personally a lot of the problems of space travel could be overcome by creating artificial gravity.