Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought

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Calm down Doug 

HOUSTON — A warp drive to achieve faster-than-light travel — a concept popularized in television's Star Trek — may not be as unrealistic as once thought, scientists say.

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. A concept for a real-life warp drive was suggested in 1994 by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre, however subsequent calculations found that such a device would require prohibitive amounts of energy.

More:   Space.com

[Mac]

This has been thought of since 1988.

There is only one drawback for this,

When it stops, there is a huge energy transfer in front of the vehicle
and whatever is in front of it is destroyed.

This was recently on one of the space progs on Discovery, but i cant remember which one.

Just a few other docs.

http://www.zamandayolculuk.com/cetinbal/SPACEDRIVE.HTM
http://members.tripod.com/da_theoretical1/techie/docs/TnSum1203.01eHwd.pdf
http://www.zamandayolculuk.com/Cetinbal/PDFdosya/WarpDriveEBook.pdf

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