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It looks like this physist has solved the problem of needing infinit mass to go the speed of light.<br /><br />Basically what it sounds like to me is that you create a anti gravity hole in front of you like a worm hole that sucks you forward.<br /><br />They say that in the next centry we will possibly be able to send a probe out to test this. How practical is this though? Even if we can get a craft to go that fast, how would we slow it down, or how would be even communicate with it. They are callling for a craft of resonable mass to be going atleast 33% the speed of light, and they need 57 to get this wormhole dealio.<br /><br />Yah its neat stuff, but it doesn't seem like right now it will be of much use to us. Id say keep giving universities funding but don't make a huge effort at this time to build a massive rocket that is technologically out of our ablity at the current time or decade.<br /><br />"Accelerating a 1-ton payload to 90 percent of the speed of light requires an energy of at least 30 billion tons of TNT"<br /><br />I dunno but is there even enough fuel on earth to get a 1 ton payload going fast enough to test this theory? <br /><br />Link to article about this: http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?id=4292 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>