The good news is, Italian physicists think it's possible we
could travel faster than light by creating a kind of "warp
drive," encasing a spaceship in a bubble and warping space, so
that space itself travels faster than the speed of light. And
the spaceship, safe in its bubble, could "surf" that wave of
space. The bad news? The warp drive could turn into a black hole
that would incinerate the ship, and suck Earth inside. That's
according to physicist Stefano Finazzi of Italy's International
School For Advanced Studies: Finazzi and his colleagues propose
creating this bubble of space-time by using a massive amount of
"exotic matter," or dark energy. (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. Eventually the energy would run
out. The bubble would rupture, with catastrophic effects. Inside
the bubble the t