However, the latest DARPA-funded research released by White and his team indicates that the energy requirements would be much less than initially believed. Some of the theoretical energy requirements do not exist - or, at least, have not yet been discovered. In visualization, the concept was compared to a surfer riding a wave - a metaphor often used to describe how a ship could travel the stars.Īlcubierre’s math, though reportedly sound, had some unresolved problems. He posited that it was possible to manipulate the fabric of space itself in order to achieve faster-than-light travel.Īlcubierre said it might be possible to expand the space behind a starship and contract space in front of it, thereby reducing the intervening gaps between planets and stars to very short distances. In 1994, Alcubierre made waves in the physics community when he published his findings on the theoretical possibilities of “warping” interstellar space. It would ensure that travel would take only days instead of a possible 2 million or more years, even at faster than light speed. If you used a Slinky for visualization, as seen above, the Alcubierre Drive expands the spring behind the spaceship and compresses the spring in front of it, leaving the space outside the spring alone, and the space inside the spring relatively normal. The experiment resulted in enough theoretical energy to achieve “warp speed,” a concept theorized by Mexican mathematician and physicist Miguel Alcubierre. In other words, White and his colleagues accidentally created a microscopic experiment while researching how energy distributes around wavelengths - a theory developed by Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir. Harold “Sonny” White, a NASA researcher at the Eagleworks Laboratory in Houston, Texas, published a research paper with his team in July about the “possible structure of the energy density present in a Casimir cavity.”Īccording to the report, the Eagleworks team came across “a micro/nano-scale structure … that predicts negative energy density distribution that closely matches requirements for the Alcubierre metric.” The scientists published their findings in July.
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A Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-funded research project at NASA’s Johnson Space Center may have accidentally discovered how to build a warp drive engine.
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