how close are we realy?

[alfricnow]

I have been wondering for a while, because I know somewhere someone is trying to do it.
Exactly how close are we to making a graviton drive?
You know make that stuff move our ships across the universe.

[Kesh]

Considering the graviton is still just theoretical... not close at all.

None of the technologies at our disposal are practical for interstellar travel.

[Quartermain]

Exactly how close are we to making a graviton drive?

Give it a couple of years. Poor little graviton was only invented a few years ago. It's got to grow up first then we can teach it how to drive. Don't wanna go rushing straight from birth to freeway traffic now do we?

Seriously.. it would first help to prove that the graviton actually exist before we go imposing roles on it.

More seriously.. Right now the graviton is just an idea on a piece of paper. The (somewhat whimsical) force particle that causes distant objects to attract toward one another. A construct of string theory, the testable nature of which has so far remained somewhat.. shall we say.. illusive. There are however a handful of projects that propose ways of detecting gravity waves which.. as the story goes.. have to exist if force particles (ie. gravitons) are at play.

[scourge]

There are however a handful of projects that propose ways of detecting gravity waves which.. as the story goes.. have to exist if force particles (ie. gravitons) are at play.

I haven't heard a thing since LIGOS was built, so I'm guessing that we haven't detected anything yet. My money's on 'and they never will.' Gravity waves and gravitons somehow seem like wishful thinking...didn't Feyman suggest that gravity is a 'pseudoforce' (like centripetal acceleration), rather than a true physical force, like magnetism?