On: Star Trek's Warp Drive: Not Impossible

[smanek]

So, it would violate SR under certain conditions (just as SR/QM violate newtonian mechanics under certain conditions?).

Boy, we really need a unified field theory to work out the kinks in physics ... I guess this could be a chance for String theory to provide a falsifiable prediction that differs from relativity and quantum physics.

[rbanffy → smanek]

Don't worry. We will find ways to violate any unified theory we can come up with ;-)

We have to agree experiments that could falsify String Theory are long overdue. If ST physicists can't come up with something, people will start calling it "String Hypothesis".

[dfranke → rbanffy]

A friend explaining to another friend why he was leaving grad school to start a startup:

"Hey, and it could actually work, so it beats studying string theory!"

"Yeah, but it could also fail. So that's a disadvantage versus string theory."

[rbanffy → dfranke]

"The best thing you can say about string theory is that it's internally consistent"