Star Trek Cloaking Device Could Work, Scientists Say

steindj

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The cloaking devices that are used to render spacecraft invisible in Star Trek might just work in reality, two mathematicians have claimed. They have outlined their concept in a research paper published in one of the UK Royal Society's scientific journals.

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That thought crossed my mind as I was typing. That's why Star Trek's system has a biofilter.


God I'm a nerd.
 
HorseFilms said:
That thought crossed my mind as I was typing. That's why Star Trek's system has a biofilter.

That stinks. They just eliminated some interesting plot lines with that. I'd like to see a cross between Spock and a tribble.
 
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- Mikko
 
Screw all that!

I want full, uninterrupted access to a Holodeck.

You know very well why: Joe Piscipoe.

I never bought for one second that Picard would rather play dressup as Dixon Hill when he could be rubbin shoulders with the funniest thing to hit this galaxy since cancer.
 
the holodeck will never be built, if it is, say goodbye to human civilization cause no one is ever comeing out again.
 
Talking about StarTrek technology, google for Prof. Nimtz and quantum tunneling.

He made an experiment where he transmitted information (classical music) at 4,7 times the speed of light.
 
Speaking of time travel I deciced to look up the maths....


Time Travel Tutorial ():

Due to relativity the geometric length of an object or body from an observer travailing at a uniform and relative motion is actually less if it was measured from the observer if at rest.

If we denote three dimensional space as x, y, z, then we can also denote another object as x1, y1, z1.

The reason why the change in geometric properties is not physical, i.e. it does not actually change, rather a consequence of the Lorentz Transformation.

Let us assume a uniform motion within the Z direction of two bodies:

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We can now apply the Lorentz invariant of geometric distance, and its 2nd and 3rd derivatives namely Velocity and acceleration and also momentum.

Distance now is given by:

LorentzInvariantDistance.jpg


Now to derive velocity and acceleration we need to apply 2nd and 3rd derivatives, however now that we have relativity involved this is a bit of a problem. The solution is given by attaching the observer to the moving body such that they move together, this is known as “proper time”, this makes the change in geometric zero. If we now derive the velocity as:

DerivedVelocity.jpg


The momentum part of the equation (NOT SURE ABOUT THIS PART) is essentially expressed by a Fourth Momentum that contains the three Newtonian momentum of the geometry (as I understand it)

LorentzInvariantFourthMomentum.jpg


Dirac's Derivation of Negative Mass Energy

From Newton’s equation we known that the energy of an object is given by:

E = ½ m v^2

[This is the bit I don’t understand, I think basically he subs The four (P) momentum into the energy equation, then looks at what happens at rest and what happens to the energy when the object is moving, then after some funky re-arranging he arrives at the last energy equation]

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The next picture is a photograph of the original chalk and blackboard derivation of the famous time travel energy equation [NOTE to self, at this point, I’m totally lost, I think as the pages describe, the E = mc^2 is expanded]

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Anhar Hussain Miah

sources:
[1] http://www.zamandayolculuk.com/cetinbal/MathematicsTimeTravel.htm
[2] http://www.scifiscience.co.uk/maths.htm
 
No kidding! Cloaking device? BAH.

Give us the holodeck. We wouldn't even need houses. Can you imaging how spacious a 250 square foot apartment would suddenly become?
 
Anhar your calculations are completely off!

You must get the Delorean to go 80 miles per hour in order to engage the flux capacitor!
 
heh, Terry your probably right :) imagine if we could actually build one,

I would get next weeks lottery numbers then come back and win, and then buy some loverly RED shares (you can buy them right?) Then go forward about 1 year and buy a couple of RED cameras, and come back now and show you guys footage of some holy Sh*t you could expect to have in a years time.
 
Anhar Miah said:
I would get next weeks lottery numbers then come back and win, and then buy some loverly RED shares (you can buy them right?) Then go forward about 1 year and buy a couple of RED cameras, and come back now and show you guys footage of some holy Sh*t you could expect to have in a years time.

...There is a certain amount of (evil?) business genius in that plan Anhar. I like it! :thumbsup:



- Mikko ... hits 88mph and dissapears.
 
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