STAR TREK WARP DRIVE PLUS
The results make sense, at least, when creating warp drive using exotic matter in a universe where 1 plus 1 equals 2. "It's a good paper their results are sound," said Gerald Cleaver, a professor of physics at Baylor University who reviewed the work.
Other physicists agree with the Italians' calculations, up to a point. "But we do not know if it will in the end explode or collapse to a black hole." "We know that the warp drive will be destabilized," said Finazzi. Inside the bubble the temperature would rise to about 10^32 degrees Kelvin, destroying almost anything on the bubble.Īnyone watching the ship nearby wouldn't be much better off. The bubble would rupture, with catastrophic effects. (Exactly how this bubble would be created is still a mystery.) According to their calculations and simplified, it would take a huge amount of energy to create the bubble, and then increasing amounts of energy to contain the highly repulsive dark energy.Įventually the energy would run out. That particular section of space can travel faster than the speed of light in the surrounding space, and anything on or in that bubble will accelerate with it.įinazzi and his colleagues propose creating this bubble of space-time by using a massive amount of "exotic matter," or dark energy. Known for the Mexican physicist Michael Alcubierre who originally developed the idea in the 1990's, an Alcubierre warp drive would create a bubble of energy behind the ship and a lack of energy in front of the ship, like a giant cosmic wave a space ship could surf. But with enough energy, space itself can move faster than the speed of light. A ship can't move through space faster than the speed of light. Warp drives are the second and more appealing option. A ship crossing this bridge would move at below light speed, but still arrive before a beam of light that would have had to go the long way around. The first is what's commonly called a worm hole, a bridge connecting two different parts of space. There are two exceptions to this rule however. In normal space any object approaching the speed of light will increase in mass exponentially, and require an exponential increase in the amount of power needed to propel it forward. Einstein's theory of relativity forbids it. In normal physics, nothing can move faster than the speed of light. This paper "makes it much harder to realize, if not almost impossible, warp drives." "Warp drives are so far the best case scenario to attain faster-than-light travel," said Stefano Finazzi of Italy's International School for Advanced Studies.
It's not as easy as Star Trek makes it look "Star Trek" makes faster-than-light travel look easy, but according to new calculations by Italian physicists, a warp drive could easily create a black hole that would incinerate any passengers on a space craft and then suck Earth into a black hole.
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