Will the Lightspeed Limit Be Unbroken?
Scientific Blogging reports that a warp drive may be possible. Read the full story here.
I’m skeptical on two counts: It’s highly speculative and the “massive amounts of energy” (quoting from the story) may be such as to make it theoretically possible and practically impossible.
But my gut leads me to think, “cold fusion.”
An excerpt below the fold:
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- The method is based on the Alcubierre drive, which proposes expanding the fabric of space behind a ship into a bubble and shrinking space-time in front of the ship. The ship would not actually move, rather the ship would sit in between the expanding and shrinking space-time dimensions. Since space would move around the ship, the theory does not violate Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, which states that it would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate an object faster than the speed of light.
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