Interstellare Reisen mit Warpantrieb gelten nun als möglich, ohne auf exotische Materie zurückgreifen zu müssen
https://www.earth.com/news/faster-than-light-warp-speed-drive-interstellar-travel-now-believed-possible/
Interstellare Reisen mit Warpantrieb gelten nun als möglich, ohne auf exotische Materie zurückgreifen zu müssen
https://www.earth.com/news/faster-than-light-warp-speed-drive-interstellar-travel-now-believed-possible/
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In another example of how truth is often stranger than fiction, scientists have taken a significant step towards turning the sci-fi concept of “warp drives” into a feasible reality.
This is where the new study comes in. Applied Physics researchers identified a new way in which warp technology might one day be possible. The team introduced the concept of a “constant-velocity subluminal warp drive” aligned with the principles of relativity.
The team’s theoretical model for a new type of warp bubble uses traditional and innovative gravitational techniques, made possible with their publicly-available tool Warp Factory.
This solution enables the transportation of objects at high but subluminal speeds without the need for exotic energy sources. This can be achieved by engineering warp drive spacetimes to gravitate like ordinary matter, which is a first-of-its-kind solution.
This is “slower than light” warp drive though. Still distorting space, but your velocity won’t break the speed of light.
So forget about getting to the planet Vulcan in three minutes. It would still solve a lot of problems and make travel within the solar system a lot more convenient. It would make the initial probes of nearby star systems possible, with results returned to earth within a decade or two.
But it’s not Star Trek.
Every step helps, these guys made a computational tool to help the next round of researchers.
Simulation matters and is a meaningful contribution.
I didn’t see a link to the warp factory paper in this post, so I added one here.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03095
We’re still not leaving the solar system, but maybe the rest of the solar system is feasible
„We don’t need exotic matter, we just need negative energy. This exists .. maybe .. in small amounts.“
How long would take to reach Pluto if we could warp to 90% the speed of light?
This article states nothing new, and is beyond vague. The only non-exotic matter option it mentions is the Casimir effect, which we’ve known about for ages. Problem with that, is that the estimates to get enough negative energy needed for a warp engine would require somewhere around the ENTIRE MASS OF JUPITER to function. Mind you, that’s ignoring EVERY engineering hurdle that’d need to be overcome to build something that big too, so basically impossible unless we could DRASTICALLY scale the effect up with a MUCH smaller mass.
Don’t get me wrong, these kind of mathematical breakthroughs are still a big deal, but it means next to NOTHING until we have a way to utilize that proof of concept.