Finally we have come back around to talking about human tech, or some of the tech they will have. This will be the start of the line. We will also talk about alien tech next week.

Becasue there are so many things to talk about, we talked about a few things in different catagories.

Here are some of the things we talked about:

Fusion reactors - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power

Fuel Cells - http://www.fuelcells.org/?gclid=CP3SqqPljZQCFSemQQod0haIXA  and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell

Nano Tech (bots) - http://www.kqed.org/quest/television/view/189?gclid=CJGiyMPljZQCFQUHQQodYx-cWA

Check these things out, Ill post more about this on our new forums.

When trying to think about FTL travel, there are so many things that are overlooked. What are the problems that prevent us from going the speed of light or faster than the speed of light. Its called mass, this little thing prevents us form getting there and beyond. The other problem in space is that current propellan rockets, need to carry there own mass to have something to push against so that they can move.

Now with mass come inertia, and when looking at the two and thinking of light speed. You come up with a problem, as we mentioned in the episode it looks like an Asymptote line, where the line never touches 1 or X. it goes on to infinity alwasy going on. They look like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptote. Now that being said with any amount of mass you could not get your self to light speed let alone beyond light speed. In order to do so you would need to remove all mass or atleast your inertia, because that is what makes your mass become so massive you cant push yourself to that marker.

Now with removing inertia other things start to happen. If I understand what im reading, normal propellant rockets would not work because without inertia they have no mass to push against in space causing no force to be directed. So you would need some other means than standerd propellent rockets to move you to say the nearest star.

As in episode 4 we discuss the issues that happen when you take in the effects of the Higgs feild. That and the fact that the math of moving something faster than light, tends to spiral out of control, with negative mass and negative time. In doing some research into how NASA is presuing FTL travel, they are looking into a warp travel, where the ship will warp spacetime around them. http://www.nasa.gov/lb/centers/glenn/research/warp/ipspaper.html. This is an interesting read, on the things to think about when trying FTL travel. Now since Jim nor I or PHD scientest we have to look at what they are doing and the problems that they are running into. We hope to come up with a creative way to solve this problem, eventhough it technically may not work in reality, we will put rules to it and see where it takes us.

If I find any further info on this subject I will add to this.

In this episode we talk about, the issues that come up when trying to implement the FTL travel of the Higgs Field. This actually came about when we were talking about the technology that the humans would have.

As we were discussing tech, like a fusion reactor and how they work, we thought what happens when you turn on the field. so we are going to continue to work on a well rounded interstellar travel form for the humans. Like we said in the episode, if we have to make something up, we will give id a set of rules that always has to be followed.

Our next episode will be on human technology followed by alien tech.

Here are some things that we talked about in this episode:

Interesting Theories - http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/FTL.html

Heres what the wikis say - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster_than_light_travel

A funny post about Warp travel - http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/24849-what-is-this-transwarp-drive-thingy-anyhow.html