Warp Drive Is Possible!
It looks like warp drive is not just something that lives in the mind of science fiction buffs, but it could be realized. The unfortunate part is that, in order to make it happen, you'd need to convert Jupiter's mass into energy for one theoretical "jump".The warp engine is based on a design first proposed in1994 by Michael Alcubierre. The Alcubierre drive, as it's known, involves expanding the fabric of space behind a ship into a bubble and shrinking space-time in front of the ship. The ship would rest in between the expanding and shrinking space-time, essentially surfing down the side of the bubble.The tricky part is that the ship wouldn't actually move; space itself would move underneath the stationary spacecraft. A beam of light next to the ship would still zoom away, same as it always does, but a beam of light far from the ship would be left behind.That means that the ship would arrive at its destination faster than a beam of light traveling the same distance, but without violating Einstein's relativity, which says that it would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate an object with mass to the speed of light, since the ship itself isn't actually moving. It is too bad I won't be around to enjoy a trip like that. Unless you know of any way to live a couple of thousand years? You can read the whole article here.Technorati Tags: warp drive, einstein, string theory