The Higgs Boson brings good tidings (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Monday, December 01, 2014, 22:36 (3443 days ago) @ Xenos

The discovery of the particle responsible for mass means the eventual ability of humans to manipulate the mass of objects, which could result in artificial gravity, inertialess travel with instantaneous acceleration, and the ability to create objects so artificially light as to repel gravity, thus launching themselves into orbit without a need for thrust or fuel, or by harnessing the energy field created by the Higgs Boson particles to fuel themselves, which could provide a stable, universally available, and reliable fuel source.

If artificial gravity isn't enough for you, Quantum Entanglement has been a thing for years now, and already allows the instantaneous and faster than light transmission of data. This may eventually be expandable to objects with greater mass than a qubit (or Quantum Bit), but even the transmission of data across space would solve many of the fundamental problems of relativistic communicaitons. If you've ever read Ender's Game, you'll be pleased to know that, in essence, the Ansible is a real thing that actually exists right now, though it is too expensive to operate (and too experimental) to be a practical replacement for telephones just yet.

Of course, these experimental features of quantum mechanics may not bear any sort of fruit in our lifetimes, though with the current rate of technological advancement, my money is on us seeing at least a few steps down the path of scientific advancement.

Always remember: The future is coming, all the damn time.