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    Star Trek warp drive leads to new Physics

    Humanity is on the cusp of becoming a space faring race.

    Star Trek warp drive leads to new Physics


    For Erik Lentz, it all started with Star Trek. Every few episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Jean-Luc Picard would raise his hand and order, “Warp one, engage!” Then stars became dashes, and light-years flashed by at impossible speed. And Lentz, still in elementary school, wondered whether warp drive might also work in real life.
    “At some point, I realized that the technology didn’t exist,” Lentz says. He studied physics at the University of Washington, wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on dark matter and generally became far too busy to be concerned with science fiction. But then, at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Lentz found himself alone in Göttingen, Germany, where he was doing postdoctoral work. He suddenly had plenty of free time on his hands—and childhood fancies in his head.


    Lentz read everything he could find on warp drives in the scientific literature, which was not very much. Then he began to think about it for himself. After a few weeks, something occurred to him that everyone else seemed to have overlooked. Lentz put his idea on paper and discussed it with more experienced colleagues. A year later it was published in a physics journal.


    It quickly became clear that Lentz was not the only person dreaming about warp drives. Media outlets all over the world picked up the story, and a dozen journalists asked for interviews. A discussion on the online forum Reddit attracted 2,700 comments and 33,000 likes. One Internet user wrote, “Anyone else feel like they were born 300 years too soon?”


    A BUBBLE IN SPACE AND TIME

    There is no doubt that the universe is still far too vast for humans to traverse. It takes more than four years for a beam of light to reach Earth’s nearest star Proxima Centauri. Even with the best available propulsion systems, it would take tens of thousands of years for a human to get there. One can always dream about establishing colonies in other star systems, but it is not a journey anyone is likely to undertake.


    But perhaps one day it might be possible to reduce the travel time. There are many ideas about how to do that, from laser-accelerated solar sails to nuclear propulsion. But even with the aid of these technologies, you would not get too far in a human lifetime. The galaxy really is open only to those who travel as fast as light—or faster.

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    I'm too hung up on the laws of science that I learned to understand how they could achieve this. But pre-WWII, who would have thought the energy released by splitting an atom would have been so large.

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    Physicists are coming around to accepting Faster than Light travel.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RMNIXON View Post
    Physicists are coming around to accepting Faster than Light travel.
    Einstein and his theory of general relativity explains how. Wormholes, or Einstein Rosen Bridges.
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    The probabilities of faster than light lay in Quantum Entanglement and that field of energy that connects strings.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jet57 View Post
    The probabilities of faster than light lay in Quantum Entanglement and that field of energy that connects strings.
    Awww jet learned a new word

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