NASA is Building a Real Warp Drive

Digital art by Les Bossinas (Cortez III Service Corp.), 1998 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I remember in College, learning about the theory of using General Relativity to push a star ship at faster-than-light speeds. I was so excited...and then I heard the bad news: we didn't know how to generate enough energy to pull it off. And then I find out today that NASA has actually found that it doesn't take as much energy as we thought it did and they are  running experiments!!! Think about that. When i was a child I thought that we would have bases on the moon and Mars as well as flying cars before we ever had warp drive! Looks like we might get faster than light travel, even if it is only moving an atom,. before we have a moon base.


NASA is Building a Real Warp Drive

Sulu, Warp Factor 2!

I saw two good articles today that show the work that is being done in the study of building warp drive for real. Some real exciting stuff.

A warp drive would manipulate space-time itself to move a starship, taking advantage of a loophole in the laws of physics that prevent anything from moving faster than light. A concept for a real-life warp drive was suggested in 1994 by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre; however, subsequent calculations found that such a device would require prohibitive amounts of energy.

Check out the good stuff!

NASA Says a Real Life Star Trek Warp Drive Is Possible

Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say

Related articles

• Warp drive may be more possible than scientists previously believed (slashgear.com)
• The Warp Drive Could Become Science Fact (news.discovery.com)
• Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say (wolfke74.wordpress.com)
• Faster-than-light travel? Make it so (salon.com)
• Warp drive may actually be possible, NASA scientist says (ksl.com)
• Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought (science.slashdot.org)