How can there be "Space Warp" if there is nothing in space?
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Great Question!\nActually, There is no such thing as a true vacuum.\nA true vacuum has never been created, anywhere, where the atomic count is zero.\nThere is always atomic content left to fill the "vacuous" space. No one has ever been able to creat a true vacuum.\n\nContrary to popular belief, empty space is not empty, and it is certainly not a vacuum. \nCheck the Wikipedia link below.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vacuum......\n\n"Empty" space actually contains an average of 1 hydrogen atom for every 32 cubic centimeters of space, this data is per NASA.\n\nIn our own Milky Way, space is more dense with 1 hydrogen atom for every 1 cubic centimeter.\n\nTo answer your question,for space to "warp", according to special relativity, space/time must be flat. The analogy always used in books is that of a bowling ball on a bed sheet, with the bed sheet representing space/time, and the bowling ball representing any mass object.\nNow roll a marble across the bed sheet, and it will follow the curve of the sheet towards to bowling ball. \nBelieve it or not, This is how Einstein envisions gravity as described by his field equations.\n\n\nThis at least describes it based on what is currently accepted in physics.\nHope it helps.
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Unless you are referring to matter, e.g, atoms, being converted into pure energy, the only way any form of matter can completely disappear is if it is what is known as a virtual particle produced from vacuum fluctuations in space, which immediately disappears without any affect on the surrounding matter or space
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There is no such thing as empty space.  The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal says that the uncertainty in energy multiplied by the uncertainty in time must be greater than or equal to a certain constant value (1/2 h-).  What does this mean?  One thing it means is that the uncertainty in energy cannot be zero, because zero times the uncertainty in time equals zero, which is not greater than 1/2 h-.  If space were empty, then the energy of space would be 0.  Not just 0, but 0.0000000000000000000000000...  Zero is an exact number with no uncertainty, however we can't have an exact value for energy (not even 0).  So, the energy of "empty" space actually fluctuates around around zero but is never exactly zero.  The net result is a thing known as Quantum Foam: tiny particles being created and destroyed over miniscule increments of time at the smallest possible scale.  Google "Quantum Foam" for more information.
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Nothing in space.  It's weightless.
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The most recent investigations (WMAP) about the shape (geometry) of our universe show that it is FLAT, meaning that it will expand infinitely, parallel lines never meet, etc.,.\n\nhttp://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_mm/mr_content.html
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It can and does. Most of the universe is empty space, with no matter or energy in it. Unless you mean all of space, as a whole. In which case, it doesn't exist devoid of matter and energy, and it is highly unlikely that it ever would. (Almost impossible, but no one really knows enough to be able to say that, for certain.) But seeing as how space is simply nothingness, I don't see why it couldn't.
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When you talk of the possibilities of Matter and Anti-Matter...we already have them.\n\nProblem in lies that if you seperate matter and anti-matter and combine them to forn energy, you have to find a way to contain the energy (there is alot from a small cumbustion)  There is the problem.  So my thoughts are not yet ready for warp technology.
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If the only things involved in the position of everything in space were momentum and gravity then perhaps all the planets and galaxies and superclusters could have enough momentum to fly away forever like something can have enough momentum to have an escape velocity from the earth.  Also if everything didn't have enough momentum then it would eventually all fall back in together into a "big crunch".\n\nThere is another factor at play, though, in the expansion of the universe called "dark energy" which is something that causes space itself to expand!  So as space itself expands everything in it is carried along outwards with the expansion.  Imagine space is a table and some crumbs on it are galaxies.  As the whole table expands the little crumbs will spread apart from each other.\n\nDark energy is very hard to study and is not well understood.  The sources I cited give good overviews and should give you a better understanding.
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A warp cushion, the space of where a worm hole used to be leaves a different time around it and inside it.\nThe bubble like on Lost in Space is possible. Time holds space not Space holds Time otherwise we wouldn't be here now.
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The "foamy" spacetime would look like a complex turbulent storm-tossed sea. Some physicists theorize the formation of wormholes therein; speculation arising from this includes the possibility of hyperspatial links to other universes.\n\nQuantum foam is theorized to create masses of virtual particles. These virtual particles make their existence known by the Casimir effect. The Casimir effect is a physical force exerted between separate objects.\n\nDutch physicist Hendrik B. G. Casimir first proposed the existence of the force, and he formulated an experiment to detect it in 1948 while participating in research at Philips Research Labs. The classic form of his experiment used a pair of uncharged parallel metal plates in a vacuum, and successfully demonstrated the force to within 15% of the value he had predicted according to his theory.\n\nSome physicists theorize that having two sets of these charged metal plates will create/connect a worm  hole between them.\n\nIf you want to take it a step further. Have a pair of plates on earth and another on a space craft moving close to the speed of light. Jumping in between the plates entering/the worm hole will allow you to travel backwards in time!
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This is a question that neither science or religion can ever "prove."  In our human capacity, it is unlikely anyone will ever know the answer to this.  How can you even take a scientific approach to this?  You can speculate how the universe appears to be created based off measurements in the space, but you can always ask the question "but what about before that?"  \n\nUltimately it comes down to faith, and I don't necessarily mean in a God.  You have faith that the universe was started somehow.  Either God or some unexplainable cosmic phenomenon that we will never understand.  Or both!
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When there was nothing there was probably no light. My favourite theory (because I can undestand it) is that "nothing" is actually a "quantum foam" of matter and anti-matter popping in and out of existence continually. So 0=+1-1. There is experimental evidence for the existence of this quantum foam. Before the big bang the universe would have been an infinite "nothing" of quantum foam. However, each of these tiny matter/anti-matter formation/anihilation events would produce a tiny gravitational wave. Over (infinite) time these gravitational waves could grow by constructive interference until a huge gravitational wave (rather like the occasional huge freak waves in our oceans) produced the special conditions required to trigger the big bang and caused a huge separation of matter and anti-matter. So the "spark" was simply a result of random noise eventually building to the point to set things off.\n\nI have a personal theory that the "virtual" gravity caused by the quantum foam might explain the missing dark matter and/or dark energy in our universe.
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Mr. Question's answer is baloney - a tell-tale sign is the complete lack of sources "a scientist in a northwest university"... give us names and places, please! \n\nAnyway, if you're interested in a "real-life" time machine, you need to look at General Relativity, in which time (being a dimension in space-time) can be warped in the presence of gravitational fields. However, you'd need a gigantic, massively heavy, incredibly quickly rotating object in order to warp spacetime enough to make any kind of dent in the passage of time.
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spacetime is finite and boundaryless.  if you wish to you may think of it as the 2d surface of a sphere, but remember, nothing inside or outside the sphere exists for the 2d surface.  in this model, nothing exists, not even space or time.
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Yes....it is....but it only occurs in rare circumstances.......ask friends to help you move and you'll see warp drive.
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Space is not empty nor is it mostly empty.  Just because you don't see what is between one galaxy and another does not make space empty.  Most of the matter that makes up the universe is not visible.  Therefore the apperant emptiness of space.
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everything is made up of energy so if space is infinite then something must be there and if something is infinitely there then energy would be infinite