For the millionth time, FTL travel was possible in mass effect independent of the mass relays. The mass relays made possible extreme distances that ships weren't capable of, the ships themselves had mass effect field generators that allowed them to travel faster then light.
The Mass Relays don't create wormholes. They reduce a ship's mass to zero, making it mass-less, therefore able to travel FTL. Hence the name: Mass Effect. Learn yo shit Gamespot!
It makes it lower than 0. Particles of mass 0 travel at the speed of light (photons), while particles of mass below 0 (which don't exist) travel faster than light.
@3:03 _"some guy at NASA claims you can warp the timespace field itself"_ Well maybe he's right, because some other guy who claims to have worked on a real UFO described the same basic idea three decades earlier. Search for "Bob Lazar interview".
The idea that drives all the science in mass effect is that they discovered a substance known as element zero that changes the mass of matter around it when exposed to electrical currents. The ftl drives work because the mass of the ship is lowered below 0.
I am not going to go all technical here and I love some of the comments people have posted but I reckon if Dark Energy is the reason why space is accelerating, then couldn't biotics and Mass relays then become more plausible? I do believe the writer of the series took the idea of alll the mass effect tech and power from current theories of dark energy/matter. As an engineer I would love to work on making FTL propulsion drives become a reality.
The writer did indeed take inspiration from dark energy, in fact, the ending of ME3 was originally supposed to be about dark energy but had to be cut because someone leaked it.
beowulf500ad at the risk of sounding like a miserable twat, im saying this: anything would have been better than the original ending. there, i said it for the 42nd trillionth time on the internet
Use Quantum transversal effect, put it under a train, the train has ALMOST no drag, then put in an air sealed vacuum and tada!! (No friction, unlimited speed)
Crystion Fundamental laws of special relativity 101; As proved by Einstein; E=mC^2. This means that the energy contained within a physical body is equal to the mass (in kg) of the body multiplied by the square of the speed of light (in m/s). We can rearrange this equation to show that m=E/C^2 meaning the mass of a body is equal to the total energy contained within it, divided by the square of the speed of light. In plain English this means that (since movement is the presence of energy (kinetic~) in a body of matter, and the faster you go the more energy you have) the faster you travel the more mass you also have. You gain mass with speed. The more mass you have, the more energy you require to accelerate even farther. So, the faster I go, the heavier I am and the more energy is required to make me go even faster. To simplify the concept, Imagine a jet fighter that weighs 1000kg (1 tonne). Imagine that this jet gains 10kg for every 10 km/h it accelerates. By the time it gets to 100 km/h it has gained 100kg. It now weighs 1100kg needing greater thrust to go faster. By the time it reaches 200kph it weighs 1200kg needing even more energy to speed up farther. By the time this jet fighter gets to the speed of sound (1234 km/h in dry air at 20degC) it weighs 2234kg (2.234tonnes) and has more than doubled its mass, It now needs proportionally more energy to accelerate more. Since F=ma (force = mass x acceleration) we can rearrange this to show a=F/m, so acceleration = Force (the engine output) divided by the mass of the object. As the mass of the jet fighter increases with its speed, the ratio of its thrust-power to its mass decreases and so the acceleration decreases. Photons have no mass and travel at the speed of light. Anything that has mass, by these fundamental laws, must therefore travel slower than light.
***** Space and time are not separate things independent of each other. They are parts of the same thing "spacetime". As space becomes warped, so does time. This is observable in intense gravitational fields such as that around a black hole. If we could synthetically warp space, then time would also become warped. This is entirely within the laws of physics. Another phenomenon is the dilation of time as you approach the speed of light. This means that (without doing the math) if I travel fast enough, lets say 50% C, what I experience as 1 day could be experienced as 10yrs for external environments such as any planet that I pass. So I might get to a destination star and still be fairly youthful even though a couple of centuries may have passed for the rest of the galaxy. If space-time could be warped enough then a wormhole theoretically could be produced (wikipedia "Einstein-Rosen Bridge" or "wormhole") and it may be possible to use this wormhole as a shortcut across space. This is not FTL travel but a shortcut. This is the general model that Star Trek Deep Space Nine used when using the wormhole to travel to the gamma quadrant. Unfortunately finding a suitable wormhole is, to put it mildly, a bit tricky. No actual wormholes have ever been observed - only theorised. Physics also tells us that these wormholes are likely to be very unstable and liable to collapse, requiring the presence of "exotic matter" to maintain stability. Synthetic warping of space-time and creation of usable wormholes are, again to put it mildly, a bit tricky!!
you are indeed travelling back in time. in Quantum Electro Dynamics particles indeed do that. Even in subliminal speeds, When particles get close to the speed of light, everything about them that depends on time gets affected, like radioactive decay. These particles sometimes live a hundred times longer than they usually do, depending on their speed. time dilation is not just an illusion. it is something that is being observed in labs all over the world.
The video left out something. Faster Than Light communication. Currently, there's quite a delay in communication the longer away from each other the 2 ends are, because of the limitation of the speed of radio waves. However, Quantum theory has given us Quantum entanglement - a state in which 2 particles' states are entangled - meaning when one changes, so does the other - instantly. That could theoretically be used to create communication devices that relay data instantly over any distance.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the lore in Mass Effect is not that it's making a "shortcut" through space time, but making a corridor of "zero-mass" space which the vessel can travel through at FTL speeds. That's what I've always thought was plausible about the Mass Effect universe, that it's not breaking e=MC^2, it's just making M = 0, or even M = -, hence the "mass effect" of its namesake.
Farscape: create a wormhole by aerobraking while being hit by solar flare; or be dragged with some "phase-shifter" engine into a random existing wormhole somewhere.
Well said, but voyager 2 is about 110 M/s faster than Voyager 1, however due to a near collision with an asteroid it was slowed because the amount of fuel used went over the amount they were supposed to have expended by that point in the journey, slowing it by about 80 m/s
You're not really going back in time, just getting to your destination before the light from the origin point does. It kinda feels like time travel since you can look back at where you came from and see you still there, but that is sorta an illusion, you're only seeing you still there 'cause the light from that moment took some time to get where you are.
They forgot to mention that quantum entanglement means that information could theoretically be sent throughout the universe instantly; provided there are sub-atomic particles that have been entangled and then sent to other parts of the galaxy and/or universe.
nope. thats planck time. time is a fundamental property, its not derived from something else. A second is defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom.
yes but only up to the speed of light. then you start travelling backwards. t'=t Sqrt(1-(v^2/C^2)). Do the maths yourself. t' is the time dilation effect. t is the time perceived time v is the velocity of the object and c is the speed of light. Try applying the conditions where v = c and v>c
that's what I like about science and achievement, it's like a constantly increasing force, the more it is learned, the more energy it gets, meaning the more science advances, the faster it advances!
I refer you to the Voyager 1 space probe, launched in 1977. It is the fastest thing humans have ever built, and is getting close to the edge of our solar system. (Which is a lot farther than Pluto) And different areas of research was kinda my point. We could be living on mars now if people were willing to pay for it, but it would seem that the majority of the western world just wants a better cellphone and the next version of angry birds.
You're only going back in time if you're using light at c to measure time. The speed of light stops being useful as a reference to measure time if there is a way to move faster than light.
This kind of things really amazes me in how big the universe, Its like we are only as small "quark"(what makes up electrons in atoms) in the universe, Who knows whats beyond these universe
We also need to remember that the relays weren't built by the alien races. They were built by the reapers and the god child catalyst thing. The races only found them. So all we have to do is create space travel where we can reach Pluto in under an hour.
Yeah, but they havent really been available to the masses. Now when I go car shopping, I can have an all electric next to an all gas car and be considering either one. 20 years ago, all electrics were rare and probably a lot harder to get than a side by side comparison to a "Normal" car at your local car store.
ishouldgetalif3 True. But hey, Cryotubes would be useful about now, you know 600 years, might as well be frozen, just have an AI that doesn't go "daisy, daisy" and we're fine.
XxWolfPack LeaderxX ''Oh yeah you go sleepy sleepy for 4 years while i go rampant oh btw, i had creepy thoughts about you when you slept. gotta go cuzz.....ya know a fucking Nuke. yet somehow you'll survive because the guy or chick was either high on bath salt's or wears a helmet Indoors that wrote script oh wanna know more of the story through the terminals? TOO BAD HALO WAYPOINT REQUIRED! and did we say you need Xbox live gold to further the story? oh we didn't? tough fucking tits also we ended abrubtly right when things got intresting. ok i'm done ranting.
Actually Mass Relay's work in the sense that they make the mass of something so small (less than quark) that it can move faster than light. Now, our current laws of physics which are just theories, i'd like to mention, makes this impossible. But changing our laws of physics will always happen. A few years ago we though going to the moon was impossible.
If you move faster than light in one direction, then turn back, you won't reach the origin before you left; even if the travel appears instantaneous and you saw yourself before leaving when you turned around.
I do believe warp can be achieved, he said not to hold your breath but how do you think the concept came about even for sci fi shows, and movies, a theory, now being tested in a lab for possible use, no I don't think a mass effect is possible, but space travel is the big thing in science, just sucks we will not be alive for it lol, great show I love it, and Miranda is so hot!!
When it comes to space travel it is baby steps if not smaller. Phones and television is not the same thing as making a space station like the citadel with it's own gravity.
Actually move on forward very fast when you compare it to the past and probably we'll get faster in the future and in the future people will also say "we only make baby steps".
we can barely populate our own earth let alone populate the universe... its not just the mass relays that set us apart from mass effect technologies, they also have space ships that can travel easily throughout solar systems where it would take us atleast 4 years just to get a couple people to mars.. we are quite a ways off to say the least
Mass effect technology doesn't reduce a ship's mass to zero, it raises the speed of light within a localized area, allowing the vehicle to accelerate to infinitely higher speeds. Thus, to someone not being affected by the mass effect field, it appears that the ship is going faster than the speed of light. Remember, everything in physics is relative to the observer's perspective.
In my lab we leared about stuff like this and watched half of this video then we made a mini scale of Normandy and used a Mass relay like pump to see where it would land. Since we aimed it toward my house dertion it landed like 3 houses away from my house so broung back the ship on Friday and we were told it may happen :D
It baffles me how negative the first guy was though somewhat informed. It's funny how the pretentious "don't hold your breath, this probably won't happen" attitude has always been shot down by creatively brilliant minds. Yep, keep doubting, it's what holds us back in many ways.
If you're referring to me when you say "the first guy" then my answer to you is, I'm not being negative - simply pointing out the real problems with the other guy's ideas since he criticizes scientists for not being smart enough. Trust me - scientists are way smart enough, and the other guy clearly didn't know his subject matter well enough. If anyone does have genuinely calculated answers to the problems I highlight then I'm all for that. Bring it. I want to own a spaceship and fly the galaxy as much as the next man. That is the joy of science and engineering, understanding the problems and then overcoming them. Tell me how I am wrong and maybe together we can build on technology and improve the lives of billions of people.
Never said you were wrong, I'm certainly not qualified to answer the complex questions you present, but I'm positive the answer is out there somewhere. Warping spacetime may sound fantastical to some, but so did black holes and other exotic theories many physicists presented years ago. Christ, what a small world you'd randomly find my comment on RUclips at an hour like this, and respond. Hell, the idea of two people who would not only never meet but interact on a personal level, despite distance, is in itself, a feat once thought impossible until only a few decades ago. So, impossibilities and doubts, to me, are mere limitations for short periods of time as we progress through an enlightened scientific age. Though I'm sure our discoveries will pale in comparison to our children's children, unless we manage to blow ourselves up.
tehrehdwel For sure the answers are out there, somewhere in the great depths of understanding, however due to human-kind's very juvenile (that is to say youthful and underdeveloped) knowledge of physics and space-time we seem relegated to what is (rightfully for now) our own solar system and place in the cosmos. At the end of the last millennium we thought we were on the verge of the Grand Unifying Theory of Everything, now we know that we have seen almost nothing of what is out there. Dark Matter and Dark Energy make up approx 96% of the universe as current understanding has it, we have a long way to go. Open minds are needed for sure, there are still many, many people who refuse to accept the concept of evolution, and many more who will not accept plate tectonics and continental drift. The gulf between academia and the layperson is huge, and If these basic concepts are still rejected by large sections of humanity then Einstein-Rosen Bridges are a long-long way off and even farther from general acceptance by humanity. If, however, someone discovers how to engineer one in coming months then I, for one, would be well pleased to read their papers!!
as will I, one can only hope a spark of brilliance proves the world wrong once again, though true progression does lie with those stubborn minds who are usually too stuck in their constructed perceptions to accept anything but what they believe, despite how ridiculous it may be. all I'm saying is that it usually doesn't take long for us to figure things out with the right amount of willpower, persistence and knowledge. unfortunately there will always be those foolish enough to deny the truth, if only to shape their skewed version of reality in a comfortable bubble that feeds the ego. I'm surprised, how can you not accept evolution, plate tectonics or continental drifts when we have earthquakes? baffles me.
If some unknown phenomena increased the gravitational pull of the Earth by: 1% would we be able to adapt? 5% would we be able to adapt? 10% would we be able to adapt? 25% would we all die? 50% would we all die? At 100% would we all die?
Yeah, but those are realitvly small steps compared to what we all expected to be right now in terms of space exploration. The things you mentioned are nice and all, but I can't help but be depressed at how little we have actually achieved.
actually, mass relays create a "mass-less" corridor between two relays. the ME FTL drives from what I understood gives ships negative mass and that allows them to travel FTL. I do not know how scientific this is but hey, it seems plausible enough and nobody ever found objects with negative masses before so it is theoretically possible, but I am no physicist and am probably wrong on a lot of things, but it seems plausible if you remove eezo's existence, but hey, its fiction.
Dude, 2 totally different areas of progress. Now, in space, we have probes that go to Saturn and we've almost got one to Pluto. That stuff wasn't even doable 20 years ago! besides, space stuff takes a lot more time because it takes years to even know if it WORKED! (Cuz it has to get there and transmit back first)
You're talking about us creating a citadel, a mass relay... the reapers made those! We never had that kind of technology in the game. But they're making a "weather station" on mars, yes? Thats where the original prothean data was found by humanity, which led to the discovery of mass relays. So don't brush Mass Effect off yet ^.^
so if they indeed are able reduce to the mass of the ship to a negative squared number, it would theoretically be faster than anything a mass relay can accomplish. But they would also be traveling back in time. In fact any amount of speed beyond the speed of light would make you travel back in time too. In fact none of the FTL business worries me but the bit about the asari does indeed worry me, because that is inconsistent with their own lore.
The day we can even make a civilization on antarctica - the day that i believe that Humans even will have reason to explore the vaste wasteland of space.
Baby steps? 7 years ago we never thought about everyone having smart phones in a family. 10 years ago "HD" practically didn't exist. 15 years ago a cell phones weren't as common place, and people used pagers (PAGERS!!) 20 years agonobody would have thought that someone could go out and buy a smart TV or an all electric car, but we can buy electric cars now, and smart TV's arn't so far away. baby steps? PFFFFTTTTTTTT!
Anno 2070 it is then, that won't be too bad, we'll get some cool underwater bases and VTOL craft. We just need to get enough carbon to build all the S.A.A.T buildings then we'll probably get spaceships.
We'll be alive when we find life on another planet, and countless habitable worlds. That's the greatest discovery for the entire existence of a race; to know we are NOT alone. We don't need to "go" there anymore.
don't worry, the bio-medical field has been growing, so it won't be long before we develop things that double and maybe even triple our life span. One of the most important developments atm is stem cells but hey have figured out about two genes that control aging in the body.
Listen, FTL obviously isn't ever going to happen, but slip space travel actually IS theoretically possible. Oh sure, the speed to rip open a wormhole is too high to achieve, but a lot of scientists have moved onto "but what if we did it with a vortex?"
NASA's got people working on warp drives.. still need some way to store TONS of potential energy in space WAY SMALLER than what we do conventionally. Additionally, some way to deactivate the warp drive and conduct whole voyage without killing the crew. My impression is that we're closer to FTL travel than to surviving the ride.
Well, that is pretty much the problem, quite apart from wanting or cellphones and games: do you want to spend so much money (hours, work, science, everything) on spacetravel and building a habitat on the moon when the same effort could go into stopping the collapse of the ecosystem or coming up with a way to feed everyone? Then again, we're hardly spending much effort in these latter fields, so we might as well fund spacetravel. ;)
True that. They could be microbes, or hundreds of thousands of years more advanced than us. Chances are arbitrarily close to NILL that they are at a similar stage of life to us.
I just finished it! I must say though, I didn't buy the whole ending controversy until last night. Even with the extended cut, the endings were all just....smh, tears.
Though I agree, space technology is stupidly slow, slower than it should be. 50 years ago we landed on the moon. What has happened since then? Apart from the Mars rovers (Which are amazing) we haven't made a significant stride forward in space technology in years. Mostly this is because their is no international space program with every country wanting to go their own way. I promise you if there was a international space program there would be moon and Mars colonys in our lifetimes.
We were born too late. We'll never explore an uncharted Earth. We were also born too early. We'll never explore the universe. We do have the ocean, which is...fine. I guess. Hmph...
For the millionth time, FTL travel was possible in mass effect independent of the mass relays. The mass relays made possible extreme distances that ships weren't capable of, the ships themselves had mass effect field generators that allowed them to travel faster then light.
if mass effect was real i would have to go to commander shepard's favorite store on the citadel
So... all of them.
Jacob Pilgrim McReady yup, pretty much
Jacob Pilgrim McReady No. Not all of them. Because " _HEY! EVERYONE! THIS STORE DISCRIMNIATES AGAINST THE POOR!_ "
11/19/95? Your birthday?
TJ Miles Nope.
This man really wants to go to the Citadel.
Did u realize that the citadel was a trap
The Mass Relays don't create wormholes.
They reduce a ship's mass to zero, making it mass-less, therefore able to travel FTL.
Hence the name: Mass Effect.
Learn yo shit Gamespot!
It makes it lower than 0. Particles of mass 0 travel at the speed of light (photons), while particles of mass below 0 (which don't exist) travel faster than light.
67tedward Yep, it sucks it can't happen for us, but this is reality, that's science fiction, two opposite things.
Negative mass IS plausible tho.
@@67tedward Who said negative mass travels faster than light?
@3:03 _"some guy at NASA claims you can warp the timespace field itself"_
Well maybe he's right, because some other guy who claims to have worked on a real UFO described the same basic idea three decades earlier. Search for "Bob Lazar interview".
yeah,we need another breakthrough period like the last century
The idea that drives all the science in mass effect is that they discovered a substance known as element zero that changes the mass of matter around it when exposed to electrical currents. The ftl drives work because the mass of the ship is lowered below 0.
I am not going to go all technical here and I love some of the comments people have posted but I reckon if Dark Energy is the reason why space is accelerating, then couldn't biotics and Mass relays then become more plausible? I do believe the writer of the series took the idea of alll the mass effect tech and power from current theories of dark energy/matter.
As an engineer I would love to work on making FTL propulsion drives become a reality.
The writer did indeed take inspiration from dark energy, in fact, the ending of ME3 was originally supposed to be about dark energy but had to be cut because someone leaked it.
iceman1731 Even if it was leaked, they probably should have kept it in.
beowulf500ad at the risk of sounding like a miserable twat, im saying this: anything would have been better than the original ending. there, i said it for the 42nd trillionth time on the internet
admiral xen I'd have shot you if it wasn't for tali!!!!!!!!!!! :v
LMAO jkz jkz the games ending did suck :P
Infinit3Enigma Well, we wouldn't have had the terrible ending if people didn't rush. At least we got a ME4 to look forward to.
skin-tight Space suits? yes Please!
Use Quantum transversal effect, put it under a train, the train has ALMOST no drag, then put in an air sealed vacuum and tada!! (No friction, unlimited speed)
yes nothing can travel faster than light, Ask Dr Michio Kaku
if light has a specific speed, then it would be possible to break
Crystion
Fundamental laws of special relativity 101;
As proved by Einstein; E=mC^2. This means that the energy contained within a physical body is equal to the mass (in kg) of the body multiplied by the square of the speed of light (in m/s). We can rearrange this equation to show that m=E/C^2 meaning the mass of a body is equal to the total energy contained within it, divided by the square of the speed of light.
In plain English this means that (since movement is the presence of energy (kinetic~) in a body of matter, and the faster you go the more energy you have) the faster you travel the more mass you also have. You gain mass with speed. The more mass you have, the more energy you require to accelerate even farther. So, the faster I go, the heavier I am and the more energy is required to make me go even faster.
To simplify the concept, Imagine a jet fighter that weighs 1000kg (1 tonne). Imagine that this jet gains 10kg for every 10 km/h it accelerates. By the time it gets to 100 km/h it has gained 100kg. It now weighs 1100kg needing greater thrust to go faster. By the time it reaches 200kph it weighs 1200kg needing even more energy to speed up farther. By the time this jet fighter gets to the speed of sound (1234 km/h in dry air at 20degC) it weighs 2234kg (2.234tonnes) and has more than doubled its mass, It now needs proportionally more energy to accelerate more. Since F=ma (force = mass x acceleration) we can rearrange this to show a=F/m, so acceleration = Force (the engine output) divided by the mass of the object. As the mass of the jet fighter increases with its speed, the ratio of its thrust-power to its mass decreases and so the acceleration decreases.
Photons have no mass and travel at the speed of light. Anything that has mass, by these fundamental laws, must therefore travel slower than light.
*****
Space and time are not separate things independent of each other. They are parts of the same thing "spacetime". As space becomes warped, so does time. This is observable in intense gravitational fields such as that around a black hole. If we could synthetically warp space, then time would also become warped. This is entirely within the laws of physics.
Another phenomenon is the dilation of time as you approach the speed of light. This means that (without doing the math) if I travel fast enough, lets say 50% C, what I experience as 1 day could be experienced as 10yrs for external environments such as any planet that I pass. So I might get to a destination star and still be fairly youthful even though a couple of centuries may have passed for the rest of the galaxy.
If space-time could be warped enough then a wormhole theoretically could be produced (wikipedia "Einstein-Rosen Bridge" or "wormhole") and it may be possible to use this wormhole as a shortcut across space. This is not FTL travel but a shortcut. This is the general model that Star Trek Deep Space Nine used when using the wormhole to travel to the gamma quadrant. Unfortunately finding a suitable wormhole is, to put it mildly, a bit tricky. No actual wormholes have ever been observed - only theorised. Physics also tells us that these wormholes are likely to be very unstable and liable to collapse, requiring the presence of "exotic matter" to maintain stability. Synthetic warping of space-time and creation of usable wormholes are, again to put it mildly, a bit tricky!!
This show has become by far my favorite gamespot show. Keep up the good work.
you are indeed travelling back in time. in Quantum Electro Dynamics particles indeed do that. Even in subliminal speeds, When particles get close to the speed of light, everything about them that depends on time gets affected, like radioactive decay. These particles sometimes live a hundred times longer than they usually do, depending on their speed. time dilation is not just an illusion. it is something that is being observed in labs all over the world.
The video left out something. Faster Than Light communication. Currently, there's quite a delay in communication the longer away from each other the 2 ends are, because of the limitation of the speed of radio waves.
However, Quantum theory has given us Quantum entanglement - a state in which 2 particles' states are entangled - meaning when one changes, so does the other - instantly. That could theoretically be used to create communication devices that relay data instantly over any distance.
1:21 They need something calibrated? They should just ask Garrus.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the lore in Mass Effect is not that it's making a "shortcut" through space time, but making a corridor of "zero-mass" space which the vessel can travel through at FTL speeds. That's what I've always thought was plausible about the Mass Effect universe, that it's not breaking e=MC^2, it's just making M = 0, or even M = -, hence the "mass effect" of its namesake.
Farscape: create a wormhole by aerobraking while being hit by solar flare; or be dragged with some "phase-shifter" engine into a random existing wormhole somewhere.
I feel like I was born too early
You're not traveling back in time, you're just going forward slower than usual.
Well said, but voyager 2 is about 110 M/s faster than Voyager 1, however due to a near collision with an asteroid it was slowed because the amount of fuel used went over the amount they were supposed to have expended by that point in the journey, slowing it by about 80 m/s
i think the mass relays may the most plausible means of travel in space,of course,as the scientist said,we need to figure out a way to build wormholes
I just love Mass Effect. It's cool to hear that other people feel the same way about it!
You're not really going back in time, just getting to your destination before the light from the origin point does. It kinda feels like time travel since you can look back at where you came from and see you still there, but that is sorta an illusion, you're only seeing you still there 'cause the light from that moment took some time to get where you are.
They forgot to mention that quantum entanglement means that information could theoretically be sent throughout the universe instantly; provided there are sub-atomic particles that have been entangled and then sent to other parts of the galaxy and/or universe.
nope. thats planck time. time is a fundamental property, its not derived from something else. A second is defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom.
yes but only up to the speed of light. then you start travelling backwards.
t'=t Sqrt(1-(v^2/C^2)).
Do the maths yourself. t' is the time dilation effect. t is the time perceived time v is the velocity of the object and c is the speed of light.
Try applying the conditions where v = c and v>c
I believe recent tweaks in the design lowered the energy requirements to the equivalent of the mass of a sphere the size of a basketball...
that's what I like about science and achievement, it's like a constantly increasing force, the more it is learned, the more energy it gets, meaning the more science advances, the faster it advances!
Wow, that's just....wow. I couldn't have put it better myself.
I refer you to the Voyager 1 space probe, launched in 1977. It is the fastest thing humans have ever built, and is getting close to the edge of our solar system. (Which is a lot farther than Pluto)
And different areas of research was kinda my point. We could be living on mars now if people were willing to pay for it, but it would seem that the majority of the western world just wants a better cellphone and the next version of angry birds.
You're only going back in time if you're using light at c to measure time. The speed of light stops being useful as a reference to measure time if there is a way to move faster than light.
True, but I meant more along the lines of accessible interstellar travel rather than satellites and telescopes.
This kind of things really amazes me in how big the universe, Its like we are only as small "quark"(what makes up electrons in atoms) in the universe, Who knows whats beyond these universe
We also need to remember that the relays weren't built by the alien races. They were built by the reapers and the god child catalyst thing. The races only found them. So all we have to do is create space travel where we can reach Pluto in under an hour.
One of my old, fairly recent, lab handbooks from uni said to hand in all lab reports with a copy on floppy disc.
SENS Foundation and cool stuff like that, bro. Cure aging while living healthily and you will live the "2 lifetimes" to see it.
Yeah, but they havent really been available to the masses.
Now when I go car shopping, I can have an all electric next to an all gas car and be considering either one.
20 years ago, all electrics were rare and probably a lot harder to get than a side by side comparison to a "Normal" car at your local car store.
Mass Relays don't create wormholes! That's Halo not Mass Effect.
ishouldgetalif3 True. But hey, Cryotubes would be useful about now, you know 600 years, might as well be frozen, just have an AI that doesn't go "daisy, daisy" and we're fine.
XxWolfPack LeaderxX ''Oh yeah you go sleepy sleepy for 4 years while i go rampant oh btw, i had creepy thoughts about you when you slept. gotta go cuzz.....ya know a fucking Nuke. yet somehow you'll survive because the guy or chick was either high on bath salt's or wears a helmet Indoors that wrote script oh wanna know more of the story through the terminals? TOO BAD HALO WAYPOINT REQUIRED! and did we say you need Xbox live gold to further the story? oh we didn't? tough fucking tits also we ended abrubtly right when things got intresting.
ok i'm done ranting.
Actually Mass Relay's work in the sense that they make the mass of something so small (less than quark) that it can move faster than light. Now, our current laws of physics which are just theories, i'd like to mention, makes this impossible. But changing our laws of physics will always happen. A few years ago we though going to the moon was impossible.
loved the soundtracks on these games!
There are still places on Earth undiscovered besides the ocean.
Maybe not on the scale as an entire continents, but there still are many unknowns.
If you move faster than light in one direction, then turn back, you won't reach the origin before you left; even if the travel appears instantaneous and you saw yourself before leaving when you turned around.
So many memories
I do believe warp can be achieved, he said not to hold your breath but how do you think the concept came about even for sci fi shows, and movies, a theory, now being tested in a lab for possible use, no I don't think a mass effect is possible, but space travel is the big thing in science, just sucks we will not be alive for it lol, great show I love it, and Miranda is so hot!!
or, artificial gravity through tractor beams on the ground and repulsor beams on the ceiling, it would feel wierd, but it could very well work.
the chick scientist has a tattoo of Flogging Molly .... damn ... AWESOME ! XD
Also this guy described warp speed. In star trek that's what happens a bubble goes around the ship and they warp space.
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That was the Professor from Futurama.
When it comes to space travel it is baby steps if not smaller. Phones and television is not the same thing as making a space station like the citadel with it's own gravity.
All of Mass Effect can be boiled down into one phrase, that phrase being
"We'll bang, okay,"
Actually move on forward very fast when you compare it to the past and probably we'll get faster in the future and in the future people will also say "we only make baby steps".
we can barely populate our own earth let alone populate the universe... its not just the mass relays that set us apart from mass effect technologies, they also have space ships that can travel easily throughout solar systems where it would take us atleast 4 years just to get a couple people to mars.. we are quite a ways off to say the least
Mass effect technology doesn't reduce a ship's mass to zero, it raises the speed of light within a localized area, allowing the vehicle to accelerate to infinitely higher speeds. Thus, to someone not being affected by the mass effect field, it appears that the ship is going faster than the speed of light. Remember, everything in physics is relative to the observer's perspective.
It's like they've never heard of Star Trek.
Hmm I cannot remember right now but can it wait? I'm in the middle of some calibrations.
In my lab we leared about stuff like this and watched half of this video then we made a mini scale of Normandy and used a Mass relay like pump to see where it would land. Since we aimed it toward my house dertion it landed like 3 houses away from my house so broung back the ship on Friday and we were told it may happen :D
It baffles me how negative the first guy was though somewhat informed. It's funny how the pretentious "don't hold your breath, this probably won't happen" attitude has always been shot down by creatively brilliant minds. Yep, keep doubting, it's what holds us back in many ways.
If you're referring to me when you say "the first guy" then my answer to you is, I'm not being negative - simply pointing out the real problems with the other guy's ideas since he criticizes scientists for not being smart enough. Trust me - scientists are way smart enough, and the other guy clearly didn't know his subject matter well enough. If anyone does have genuinely calculated answers to the problems I highlight then I'm all for that. Bring it. I want to own a spaceship and fly the galaxy as much as the next man. That is the joy of science and engineering, understanding the problems and then overcoming them. Tell me how I am wrong and maybe together we can build on technology and improve the lives of billions of people.
Never said you were wrong, I'm certainly not qualified to answer the complex questions you present, but I'm positive the answer is out there somewhere. Warping spacetime may sound fantastical to some, but so did black holes and other exotic theories many physicists presented years ago. Christ, what a small world you'd randomly find my comment on RUclips at an hour like this, and respond. Hell, the idea of two people who would not only never meet but interact on a personal level, despite distance, is in itself, a feat once thought impossible until only a few decades ago. So, impossibilities and doubts, to me, are mere limitations for short periods of time as we progress through an enlightened scientific age. Though I'm sure our discoveries will pale in comparison to our children's children, unless we manage to blow ourselves up.
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For sure the answers are out there, somewhere in the great depths of understanding, however due to human-kind's very juvenile (that is to say youthful and underdeveloped) knowledge of physics and space-time we seem relegated to what is (rightfully for now) our own solar system and place in the cosmos. At the end of the last millennium we thought we were on the verge of the Grand Unifying Theory of Everything, now we know that we have seen almost nothing of what is out there. Dark Matter and Dark Energy make up approx 96% of the universe as current understanding has it, we have a long way to go. Open minds are needed for sure, there are still many, many people who refuse to accept the concept of evolution, and many more who will not accept plate tectonics and continental drift. The gulf between academia and the layperson is huge, and If these basic concepts are still rejected by large sections of humanity then Einstein-Rosen Bridges are a long-long way off and even farther from general acceptance by humanity. If, however, someone discovers how to engineer one in coming months then I, for one, would be well pleased to read their papers!!
as will I, one can only hope a spark of brilliance proves the world wrong once again, though true progression does lie with those stubborn minds who are usually too stuck in their constructed perceptions to accept anything but what they believe, despite how ridiculous it may be. all I'm saying is that it usually doesn't take long for us to figure things out with the right amount of willpower, persistence and knowledge. unfortunately there will always be those foolish enough to deny the truth, if only to shape their skewed version of reality in a comfortable bubble that feeds the ego. I'm surprised, how can you not accept evolution, plate tectonics or continental drifts when we have earthquakes? baffles me.
tehrehdwel The Earth is dying. There is not enough time for FTL. We fucked up. The End.
If some unknown phenomena increased the gravitational pull of the Earth by:
1% would we be able to adapt?
5% would we be able to adapt?
10% would we be able to adapt?
25% would we all die?
50% would we all die?
At 100% would we all die?
I always thought that the relays where say 1 shot you super fast and the other 1 on the other end caught you
remember that Mass effect relays where created by the Protheans(Reapers)
Yeah, but those are realitvly small steps compared to what we all expected to be right now in terms of space exploration. The things you mentioned are nice and all, but I can't help but be depressed at how little we have actually achieved.
Have you played the first two? If you haven't, I would really recommend them, as well. The whole trilogy is amazing!
I all ways read the title in Professor Farnsworth's voice.
actually, mass relays create a "mass-less" corridor between two relays. the ME FTL drives from what I understood gives ships negative mass and that allows them to travel FTL. I do not know how scientific this is but hey, it seems plausible enough and nobody ever found objects with negative masses before so it is theoretically possible, but I am no physicist and am probably wrong on a lot of things, but it seems plausible if you remove eezo's existence, but hey, its fiction.
Dude, 2 totally different areas of progress.
Now, in space, we have probes that go to Saturn and we've almost got one to Pluto.
That stuff wasn't even doable 20 years ago!
besides, space stuff takes a lot more time because it takes years to even know if it WORKED! (Cuz it has to get there and transmit back first)
You're talking about us creating a citadel, a mass relay... the reapers made those! We never had that kind of technology in the game.
But they're making a "weather station" on mars, yes? Thats where the original prothean data was found by humanity, which led to the discovery of mass relays. So don't brush Mass Effect off yet ^.^
The physicist telling me not to hold my breath does nothing to sate my appetite for these technologies.
so so many sci fi tropes, ftl speed, artificial gravity, massive spacestations and ships, true AI.
and we are not even close to any
so if they indeed are able reduce to the mass of the ship to a negative squared number, it would theoretically be faster than anything a mass relay can accomplish. But they would also be traveling back in time. In fact any amount of speed beyond the speed of light would make you travel back in time too.
In fact none of the FTL business worries me but the bit about the asari does indeed worry me, because that is inconsistent with their own lore.
7:06 flogging molly
The attitude in your comment makes me feel the love for humanity :')
After putting so much work into soft-landing boosters, would Space X oppose space elevators?
The day we can even make a civilization on antarctica - the day that i believe that Humans even will have reason to explore the vaste wasteland of space.
The actual greatest discovery would be finding life in another universe.
I just watched it. That was supposed to be a humorous conversation; Liara says, "Thats not how it works" herself.
Baby steps?
7 years ago we never thought about everyone having smart phones in a family.
10 years ago "HD" practically didn't exist.
15 years ago a cell phones weren't as common place, and people used pagers (PAGERS!!)
20 years agonobody would have thought that someone could go out and buy a smart TV or an all electric car, but we can buy electric cars now, and smart TV's arn't so far away.
baby steps? PFFFFTTTTTTTT!
Because to explore the galaxy WE NEED HIGH DEFINITION TELEVISIONS THAT WILL TALK TO US!
It'll be fine, once we discover the prothean ruins on mars we'll be set
Anno 2070 it is then, that won't be too bad, we'll get some cool underwater bases and VTOL craft. We just need to get enough carbon to build all the S.A.A.T buildings then we'll probably get spaceships.
We'll be alive when we find life on another planet, and countless habitable worlds. That's the greatest discovery for the entire existence of a race; to know we are NOT alone. We don't need to "go" there anymore.
don't worry, the bio-medical field has been growing, so it won't be long before we develop things that double and maybe even triple our life span. One of the most important developments atm is stem cells but hey have figured out about two genes that control aging in the body.
Listen, FTL obviously isn't ever going to happen, but slip space travel actually IS theoretically possible. Oh sure, the speed to rip open a wormhole is too high to achieve, but a lot of scientists have moved onto "but what if we did it with a vortex?"
NASA's got people working on warp drives.. still need some way to store TONS of potential energy in space WAY SMALLER than what we do conventionally. Additionally, some way to deactivate the warp drive and conduct whole voyage without killing the crew. My impression is that we're closer to FTL travel than to surviving the ride.
Ben Allen all things has a negastive for a matter an anti-matter its posible
and so the hunt for sentiant fish continues
the idea was that, we dont find everything wrong. They are improvements, especially when it comes to age old theories like relativity.
Well, that is pretty much the problem, quite apart from wanting or cellphones and games: do you want to spend so much money (hours, work, science, everything) on spacetravel and building a habitat on the moon when the same effort could go into stopping the collapse of the ecosystem or coming up with a way to feed everyone?
Then again, we're hardly spending much effort in these latter fields, so we might as well fund spacetravel. ;)
PFFTTT!
Only about 100 years ago, we first made/invented cars...
100 years later, we landed on the moon!
using my distant knowledge i heard someone needs something being calibrated....
@MainlyHuman this does raise the question of why would we want to live on what all current evidence suggests is a barren wasteland
Plus the whole mars- one thing
True that. They could be microbes, or hundreds of thousands of years more advanced than us. Chances are arbitrarily close to NILL that they are at a similar stage of life to us.
We are paving the way for future generations.
:)
they dont exchange, they take in genetic information. liara's conversation with her father. they do look more different to each other than humans do.
Hey... pagers were badass!
Skintight space suit... I could see a beautiful future that I wouldn't live long enough to see. XD
I just finished it! I must say though, I didn't buy the whole ending controversy until last night. Even with the extended cut, the endings were all just....smh, tears.
Though I agree, space technology is stupidly slow, slower than it should be. 50 years ago we landed on the moon. What has happened since then? Apart from the Mars rovers (Which are amazing) we haven't made a significant stride forward in space technology in years. Mostly this is because their is no international space program with every country wanting to go their own way. I promise you if there was a international space program there would be moon and Mars colonys in our lifetimes.
its in ME 3. youtube it. she tells her that if she finds the urge to headbutt anyone one its coz there is a krogan in the family.
We are not alone in the universe, we are but a particle of sand in the sea.
btw... shame on you EA for the endings. You sir, you'r a blight.
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We were born too late. We'll never explore an uncharted Earth.
We were also born too early. We'll never explore the universe.
We do have the ocean, which is...fine. I guess. Hmph...