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Related: About this forumAlabama engineering student tells scientists 'warp drive' might work (al.com)
Posted Sep 25, 2019
By Lee Roop | lroop@al.com
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Warp drive, as Star Trek fans know, is the ability to fly through space at speeds faster than light. A report on University of Alabama in Huntsville student Joseph Agnews work succinctly explained the value of speeds like that: Unless we can do it, were not going very far from home.
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"Mathematically, if you fulfill all the energy requirements, they cant prove that it doesnt work," says Joseph Agnew, a mechanical engineering senior at UAH and an undergraduate research assistant with UAHs Propulsion Research Center.
Suppose you have a craft thats in the bubble, says Agnew in an article on the UAH website. What you would do is, youd compress space-time ahead of the craft and expand space-time behind it.
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"People used to say, Youre dealing in something that would be great, but it takes the mass of the entire universe to do it," Agnew says. "Now, were down to where, it is still an immense amount of energy and exotic matter is still a problem, but if we had that energy, we could do it."
The energy requirement reductions came after five to eight years of theoretical work, he says. Its been reduced by many, many orders of magnitude.
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keithbvadu2
(36,678 posts)First we have to get some dilithium crystals.
BadgerKid
(4,549 posts)cstanleytech
(26,248 posts)were not as high as first though but the problem still lies in meeting the lowering requirements not to mention how to generate the field or even if it can be done the question then is if its safe to use.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)still gotta solve the exotic matter problem.