miguel alcubierre

The Warp Drive

In a rush to flee the solar system? Scientists have an interstellar travel plan, but it entails a brief stint outside the known universe

What: A spacecraft that travels at faster-than-light speeds by distorting, or "warping," the fabric of spacetime. Instead of trying to move through space, the warp drive moves space itself. The ship sits inside a bubble of spacetime bound by a negative energy field that races across the cosmos.

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