Warp Speed 10: NASA Physicist Says Warp Drive is Feasible
September 18, 2012 1:10 PM comment(s) - last by Adjustments have
radically reduced the theoretical amount of energy necessary to
warp space-time "There is hope." Those were the words of Harold
"Sonny" White at the 100 Year Starship Symposium , an event
where science fiction fans and theoretical physicists alike met
to trade suggestions and ideas about future starship designs .
Mr. White was talking about his novel warp drive that bears
eerie similarities to the fictional drive of Star Trek fame. I.
From Fiction to Feasible The idea for the real-life version was
first hatched by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre in 1994.
Alcubierre's spaceship was a two-part design consisting of a
football-shaped spacecraft and an outer ring of exotic matter,
responsible for warping space. Inside the ring was a bubble of
normal, safe space-time encapsulating the ship, but outside it
the ring contracted space-time ahead of the ship while
elongating it behind the ship.