Because of the implied difficulties, a warp drive created from the model developed by the researchers could not be built today, but it does suggest that someday it might be possible. The trick is finding a way to compress a planet-sized mass to a manageable spacecraft-module size in order to use its gravity. Bobrick and Martire suggest instead that a massive gravitational force could be used to bend space time. Despite some bombastic reporting in other places, it's not a 'real-life' Enterprise - not yet - but the fact that news of warp drive research continues to grab headlines is an example of just. But such a craft would require a massive amount of negative energy, which would not be feasible for a real spacecraft. This is what is known as the 'Alcubierre Metric'. In this new effort, the researchers have taken a previous idea based on warping space-time a step further to create a model for a warp drive that they believe could be feasible in the future.īobrick and Martire start with the idea of an Alcubierre warp drive, a concept developed by Miguel Alcubierre in 1994-he envisioned it as spacecraft that could contract space time in front of the vehicle while expanding it behind the craft. a spaceship) would then be able to ride this region, known as a 'warp bubble' of flat space.

But what if you folded the napkin in half and moved through and across the folds? You could get to your destination in almost no time. If you had to traverse its entire surface, it would take a certain amount of time. The effect of collision of interstellar dust particles and photons with the spacecraft will all lead to a pressure proportional to the apparent velocity of the spaceship (vs). But in actuality, as the name of the drive suggests, such an engine did not actually push the craft faster than the speed of light instead, it simply warped space time in a way that allowed for using a shortcut. We investigate obstacles of superluminal warp drive travels from interactions with interstellar matter and from curvature effects. Physicists have scoffed at the idea of a real warp drive, however, because it suggests travel faster than light. Sulu, execute'), and the ship was pushed swiftly to another distant destination. The present invention relates to the use of technical drive systems, which operate by the modification of gravitational fields. Back in the '60s, television viewers became familiar with the idea of a warp drive courtesy of the television show 'Star Trek.' When the crew needed to get somewhere fast, Captain Kirk gave his famous command ('Mr. On the other side, it was indirectly observed in the Casimir effect, a beautiful application of quantum field theory to real life.

Possiblity of real warp drive