Warp Drive

Blackthorne TA · Thu, 20th Sep '12, 9:17pm

They now think it's plausible.

Not much detail unfortunately. It seems to imply a ring of "exotic matter" is what does the warping... so how would you build the thing let alone turn it on and off? Very unclear

Darion · Thu, 20th Sep '12, 10:01pm

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Interesting stuff. I remember reading something similar way back. Everyone agrees that it's possible...but none knows how.

A star-drive based on Linear Accelerator like CERN i far more likely.
Warp-Bubbles are a bit on the exotic side!

PS.
The drive design proposed in the article looks like the standard Warp-Drive on Vulcan Ships!

henkie · Thu, 20th Sep '12, 11:54pm

I read about it too. Looks like a warp drive is not theoretically impossible at least. We've already got the tablets like they had, now al we need is teleporters

Splunge · Fri, 21st Sep '12, 3:34pm

Quote:

A warp drive would manipulate space-time itself to move a starship, taking advantage of a loophole in the laws of physics that prevent anything from moving faster than light.

They better move fast before that loophole gets plugged!

Blackthorne TA · Sat, 22nd Sep '12, 9:01pm

Hehe. Loophole. Gotta love journalists.

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