ACEIZE Tracking the current state of Science and Technology

The new Star Trek movie is creating a buzz in the media. It's that funny sort of spin off buzz that generates articles like the one I read this morning. The article stipulates that Star Trek's warp drives may not be impossible. That's good news.

Apparently NASA is even looking into breaking the law of relativity. The trick, apparently, is to realize there is no spoon. Actually, NASA is currently thinking about the problem as one of moving a chunk of space-time through our normally perceived space-time. An object within the bubble would not need to move in order to travel (relative to those sitting still) at speeds faster than light.

They have done an experiment with gyroscopes that may hold some evidence of this phenomenon. Super-cooled rings were placed beneath a gyroscope. When the supercooled rings were moved, the gyroscope stopped spinning. Apparently the spinning of the supercooled rings tricked the gyroscopes into thinking that they were actually spinning. One postulated theory of how this happens is that the supercooled rings are dragging space time.

I don't know. But it all sounds pretty neat. Although, it's a shame that NASA insists on treating the 3 dimensional world as real when mathematically we live in an infinitely dimensional geometry.