The dream of faster-than-light travel has been on the mind of
humanity for generations. Until recently, though, it was
restricted to the realm of pure science fiction. Theoretical
mechanisms for warp drives have been posited by science, some of
which actually jive quite nicely with what we know of physics.
Of course, that doesn’t mean they’re actually going to work NASA
researchers recently revisited the Alcubierre warp drive and
concluded that its power requirements were not as impossible as
once thought. However, a new analysis from the University of
Sydney claims that using a warp drive of this design comes with
a drawback. Specifically, it could cause cataclysmic explosions
at your destination. To see how the Alcubierre drive could
devastate an entire star system, you have to know a little about
how it would work. The ship would consist of a central pod, and
a large flattened ring around it (pictured below). The ring
would have to be made of an as-yet unidentified kind of dense
exotic matter capable of be