![]() Their experiments have shown this may be possible but Dr White insisted it was too early to say anything definitive about what they have achieved. The project, which he has named Eagleworks, uses a high-voltage capacitor ring that is charged up and discharged as a laser is fired through the centre.ĭr White is looking for changes in the way the light passes through it that may indicate the photons have passed through a warp bubble. He found that by changing the shape of the bubble and oscillating its intensity, it was possible to reduce the amount of energy that would be required.ĭr White and his team have now set up their equipment in a laboratory that used to be used in the development of technology for the Apollo space missions in the 1960s. The bubble would compress space and time in front of it.ĭr White is building on work by a Mexican scientist called Miguel Alcubierre who estimated that it would be possible to achieve this if an object had negative mass.ĭr White believes a spacecraft would need to be surrounded by a ring of exotic matter known as negative vacuum energy. However, it would take it 75,000 years to reach our nearest star Alpha Centauri, which is around 4.3 light years.ĭr White, however, believes that by containing a spacecraft inside a warp bubble, it could travel over larger distances without having to break the speed of light. The Voyager 1 spacecraft, which was launched in 1977, is currently on the cusp of becoming the first man-made object to leave our solar system. ![]() ![]() “It is the first step you want to take to move from the maths to an experimental set up.”Ĭurrently the furthest mankind has managed to venture is to the edge of our own solar system, around 11.6 billion miles from Earth. “This is not something that you can bolt to a spacecraft, this is science trying to go through to find existence proof of the physics. “It was this significant reduction in energy requirements that encouraged us to go on to generate some kind of manifestation of it in the lab. “We found two mechanisms that can reduce the amount of energy that would be required to create a space warp. He said: “One of the problems is the amount of energy that would be required to create a space warp. He said that they have already begun conducting experiments and have generated some results suggest they are making progress towards being able to generate a warp bubble. Warp drives were an essential part of the Star Ship Enterprise in the long-running science fiction series Star Trek, allowing the crew to between the distant worlds they were exploring.ĭr White presented an update on his work at the Icarus Interstellar Congress, where scientists gathered to discuss ways of travelling between the stars. However, Dr White claims warp bubbles are theoretically possible and has now begun work to create warp bubbles for the first time in the laboratory. This would allow a spacecraft to overcome one of the central laws in physics – that nothing can exceed the speed of light. ![]() These so called “warp bubbles” could eventually allow spacecraft to at speeds that appear to exceed the speed of light, the Daily Telegraph reported.Įssentially the warp creates a fold in the fabric of space and time that allows an object inside to travel a much greater distance in a shorter time. NEW YORK - NASA scientists are developing a Star Trek-style “warp drive” that may eventually allow spacecraft to travel to the stars faster the speed of light.ĭr Harold White, a physicist at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre, is conducting research to create a warp in space and time. ![]()
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