Scientists Announce a Physical Warp Drive Is Now Possible
12 days ago
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- A new research paper proposes a fully physically realized model for warp drive.
- The model builds on the Alcubierre drive concept but eliminates the need for negative energy.
- The Alcubierre drive, proposed in 1994, requires exotic matter and enormous energy to contract and expand spacetime.
- The new model uses floating bubbles of spacetime, making it more feasible under known physics.
- Scientists from the Advanced Propulsion Laboratory (APL) published the study in Classical and Quantum Gravity.
- The concept is still theoretical and far from practical implementation.
- Warp speed travel remains a distant possibility but is now considered more plausible.