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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    And much of the science fiction of the 1900s is science fact today.
    None of those changes from fiction to fact required changes to physical laws.
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    None of those changes from fiction to fact required changes to physical laws.
    I don't think something like a warp in space time would violate the current laws of physics, at least according to some scientists. Fold to parts of distance space closer together and simply fly throw. Einstein talked about, as have other scientists.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    I don't think something like a warp in space time would violate the current laws of physics, at least according to some scientists. Fold to parts of distance space closer together and simply fly throw. Einstein talked about, as have other scientists.
    Right. Thought experiments are useful. If it is possible why haven't we seen it done? What experiments could we run to prove the fact of foldable space? What would an observer see?
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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    Right. Thought experiments are useful. If it is possible why haven't we seen it done? What experiments could we run to prove the fact of foldable space? What would an observer see?
    We haven't advanced that far.

    It took a bit of a while for humans to step on the moon. Depending on when you want to call the beginning of current humans, say from 300,000 BC to 1969AD.

    Our drive into our solar system we be well on its way by 2000AD and we could quickly find the ability to leave the solar system not long after that. I would say well under 100 years.
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    We haven't seen dark matter or dark energy either. We haven't seen black holes either.

    Harnessing nuclear energy

    On 29 December 1934, Albert Einstein was quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as saying, “There is not the slightest indication that (nuclear energy) will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.” This followed the discovery that year by Enrico Fermi that if you bombard uranium with neutrons, the uranium atoms split up into lighter elements, releasing energy.

    Einstein’s scepticism was, however, overtaken by events. By 1939, nuclear fission was better understood and researchers had realised that a chain reaction – one that, once started, would drive itself at increasing rates – could produce a huge explosion. In late 1942, such a chain reaction was produced experimentally, and on August 6 1945 the first atomic bomb used aggressively exploded over Hiroshima. Ironically, Fleet Admiral William Leahy allegedly told President Truman: “This is the biggest fool thing we’ve ever done – the bomb will never go off – and I speak as an expert on explosives.”
    Then, in 1954, the USSR became the first country to supply some of its electricity from nuclear power with its Obninsk nuclear power plant.
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