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Inside the warp drive experiments that could redefine space-time and human survival

From Alcubierre’s warp bubble to quantum scale experiments and gravitational wave signatures scientists are quietly building ...
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Warp drives could allow time travel and NASA is studying them

Warp drives have long lived in the realm of science fiction, but the underlying physics that inspired them is very real and surprisingly precise. As researchers probe the edges of general relativity ...
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NASA Actually Working on Faster-than-Light Warp Drive

You know that scene in the film Contact where the “Machine” is spooling up, its three spinning rings kicking out crazy light and an electromagnetic field powerful enough to pitch nearby Navy ...
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To Escape Extinction, We Need to Achieve Warp Speed. New Scientific Breakthroughs Suggest It’s Possible.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every Friday night, Alcubierre and his friends would rent a VHS tape of Star Trek: The Next Generation and watch an episode or two ...
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Humanity’s Survival Hinges on Building a Warp Drive. Scientists Now Say It’s Possible.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On one particular Friday night in 1992, Miguel Alcubierre couldn’t stop thinking about Star Trek. Every ...
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Scientists Designed a Warp Drive That Theoretically Works With Real Physics

The first warp drive design from the early 90s required massive amounts of negative energy, but three decades of honing the math later, scientists have lowered that threshold considerably. Now, a new ...
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To Escape Extinction, We Need to Achieve Warp Speed. New Scientific Breakthroughs Suggest It’s Possible.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On one particular Friday night in 1992, Miguel Alcubierre couldn’t stop thinking about Star Trek. For ...