NASA and Google appear to be dabbling in Quantum Computing
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There's also an in-depth paper on Quantum Computing if you want details: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.4595v1.pdf
And even a guide here: http://www.dwavesys.com/en/dev-tutorial-intro.html
tl;dr: thingy make computer go fast
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http://techland.time.com/2012/09/19/nasa-actually-working-on-faster-than-light-warp-drive/
Nope. The mass-energy of Jupiter. That is the amount of energy released if you converted all of Jupiter's mass to energy, E=MC^2 style.
Nope. You don't "travel in time" any more than you're travelling in time right now. As you go faster, the rate at which time passes for you from the perspective of a relatively stationary observer appears to decrease. You spend one year of your time in your journey, but from the outside perspective it actually took five.
Also nope: The direction of the travel is not important.
--Scythe--
low quality youtube video or it didn't happpen
when it comes to technology, humans tend to overestimate what will be possible in the short term and underestimate what is possible in the long term. As for quantum computing, its more like 10-20 years away when you discover just how difficult the problems they are trying to solve are, its why Dwave went with their approach (which isnt really a real quantum computer)
Yeah warp drive is exciting however its hundreds of years away (maybe im overestimating there, i would say at least 250 years then
There are several problems, we need stupid amounts of energy, we are talking 500 kilograms of antimatter, we can barely make a few atoms of antimatter and the longest we can store it is 16 minutes. The other problem is you need some exotic form of matter with antigravity properties, we havnt found any yet. And then theres many more problems too. We are a long long long way off from achieving warp drive.
you cant go the speed of light, its impossible. So naturally its impossible to go faster than light, even for light. Space however, can bend at speeds even faster than light, its not bound by the same rules as matter. The theoretical warp drive contracts space in front of a spacecraft and expands space behind it, which allows it to travel across space faster than it would take light to travel.
You are right that the faster you go the more your time slows down in relation to a slower moving observer. However, going backwards and and traveling back in time, thats impossible. If you traveled away from earth at the speed of light, then traveled back to earth, hundreds of years would have passed by on earth. I know which documentary you got it from too, i think you misunderstood what they were saying (however it was confusing how they were explaining it, so i can see why its easy to misunderstand