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    1. From the article 

      Finally, there’s still the problem of stability: Just this month, Thomas Buchert and Antony Frackowiak posted a paper that re-examined Alcubierre-style kinematics and reported an “expected generic instability of the warp field” in one example they studied.

      So, none of this gives engineers a warp drive. The concept is still in the “far future” zone of possibility, made of ideas that scientists still don’t know how to construct in any sense.

      “While the mass requirements needed for such modifications are still enormous at present,” the APL scientists wrote in 2021, “our work suggests a method of constructing such objects based on fully understood laws of physics.”

      Of course, there’s one gigantic caveat here: The concept in this paper is still in the “far future” zone of possibility, made of ideas that scientists still don’t know how to construct in any sense.

      “While the mass requirements needed for such modifications are still enormous at present,” the APL scientists write, “our work suggests a method of constructing such objects based on fully understood laws of physics.”

      So, is a warp drive possible? In the loose, mathematical sense, the idea is certainly stronger than it used to be. But in the practical sense—the one that would actually send us across interstellar distances—no one has brought it much closer. Yet.

    2. Things are always impossible until someone actually does it, they said the same thing about flight and breaking the sound barrier

    3. I_hate_all_of_ewe on

      Warp drive technology is doomed from the beginning because of the speed of light.  To be clear, the speed of light has nothing to do with light itself — it’s the speed of causality, and there’s no way to circumvent it.  Let’s say that in principle you could warp to somewhere that’s 50 light years away and back.  Even if you could warp such that you extended no time at all, by the time you got back from your trip, everyone you’ve ever known will be dead, and the world would be completely different.

    4. Firm-Boysenberry on

      It’s amazing that this paper review is breaking news 5 years after the paper was published.

    5. JustAtelephonePole on

      Just make sure not to hit the turbulence zone behind the propulsion system… I was speeding out of a dark forest and hit one once, and now I’m in this fucky wucky timeline 🤷‍♂️

    6. TombStoneFaro on

      I am no physicist but is not the amazing fact that space itself expands faster than light in some places significant?

    7. TabletopNewtype-1 on

      As a warhammer 40k player… That suspiciously sounds like warp travel with Gellar fields. Nah… Im good dont want to be Tzeentch and Slaanesh’s plaything

    8. andrewclarkson on

      You can’t break the laws of physics, but we haven’t discovered all the laws yet.

    9. dstranathan on

      Isn’t there a professor in Omaha that claims to have built one in his garage?

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