Do you really believe that one day man will build a Hyperdrive?

I believe in endless possibility. Nothing is impossible nowadays, technology will continue to advance.

They had a blip on a science show on CBC radio a while back that in the near future light speed is totally plausible.

Given the research in quantum mechanics, which has only been discussed in the physics community for a little over 100 years, it is entirely plausible to surmise that an overarching macroscopic discovery might emerge in the next couple hundred years. It took 400 years from the time Da Vinci started drawing flying machines until the Wright Brothers built a working heavier than air flying machine.

The concept for hyperdrive is there, we just need to figure out how to do it.

Nasa is currently setting up an experiment to see if they can create a warp bubble.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/164326-nasa-discusses-its-warp-drive-research-prepares-to-create-a-warp-bubble-in-the-lab

I’m an agnostic; I don’t believe or disbelieve.

I figure they’ll do it by manipulating worm holes. It won’t happen today or tomorrow.

We’ve only got 49 years until First Contact, and we have to squeeze in World War III.

We’ll see.

I hope so, but not with the level of support for basic science these days.

Of course many things are simply impossible because they violate laws of physics. “Warp drive” (i.e., faster-than-light travel) was deemed impossible after Einstein’s theories proved correct 100 years ago, but physicist Lawrence Krauss claims in The Physics of Star Trek that there might be ways of manipulating enormous quantities of mass—warping space-time—to effectively accomplish this without violating relativity.

Even if possible, it should take centuries for us to develop such advanced technology—even allowing that the pace of future development might be faster than it is today. [Disclaimer: It’s been some years since I actually read the book!]

I wouldn’t say I believe we’ll achieve intergalactic travel. I’m not even certain we won’t blow ourselves up or alter our home planet’s ecology to the point we destroy ourselves. But if we manage to avoid those twin threats, and the next mass extinction event gives us sufficient time, I expect we will first colonize nearby, earth-like exoplanets; and that we will eventually figure out how to manage intergalactic exploration. It’s what we do. We always explore. Put us in the Garden of Eden and we’ll leave to see what outside the garden.

@gasman The Big Bang was a mere 13.798 ± 0.037 billion years ago, so the observable Universe should be about 27.596 billion light years across. Instead, it is 93 billion light years across. That means the most distant objects, galaxies and massive local clusters of galaxies, are receding from us at well above the speed of light due to the expansion of empty spacetime. So nature’s already not only figured out FTL travel, but how to fly whole clusters of galaxies apart at FTL speeds. Obviously, it can be done.

So is the overall answer yes? Can we one day build a Hyperdrive, or must we wait for two peaceful aliens first?

@gasman
Faster than light travel through space was made impossible by relativity, but relativity also established that space itself can do whatever the hell it likes.

@ETpro @ragingloli Yes, I agree. The universe can expand faster than light speed.
Now I have to track down Krauss’s book & see what he was talking about.

“That which is not forbidden is mandatory.”—old astrophysics proverb

If we survive the next 200 years, yes.