![]() So somebody’s clock aboard the spacecraft has the same rate of time as somebody in mission control here in Houston might have. The math would allow you to go to Alpha Centauri in two weeks as measured by clocks here on Earth. Existence proof for the practical application of a scientific idea can be a tipping point for technology development.īy harnessing the physics of cosmic inflation, future spaceships crafted to satisfy the laws of these mathematical equations may actually be able to get somewhere unthinkably fast””and without adverse effects. This existence proof was followed by the activation of a ~ four megawatt reactor in November of 1943. Recall that December of 1942 saw the first demonstration of a controlled nuclear reaction that generated a whopping half watt. Although this is just a tiny instance of the phenomena, it will be existence proof for the idea of perturbing space time””a “Chicago pile” moment, as it were. ![]() At JSC, Eagleworks has initiated an interferometer test bed that will try to generate and detect a microscopic instance of a little warp bubble. ![]() Those equations are tested using an instrument called the White-Juday Warp Field Interferometer. They explain it much better than I ever could, obviously, so here’s how they present it: If successful, this would give them the blueprints to grow the tests from there and eventually progress it to a much larger and much more useful warp bubble. Basically, the plan is for the Eagleworks Laboratories team to create a microscopic warp bubble using loopholes found in mathematical equations. White wrote about the breakthrough in an article co-authored by Catherine Ragin Williams Sure for Icarus Interstellar. Harold “Sonny” White, is so sure that warp drive is possible, that he’s already working on tests to successfully figure out how it works, saying “Perhaps a Star Trek experience within our lifetime is not such a remote possibility.” NASA’s Advanced Propulsion Theme Lead for their Engineering Directorate, Dr. But even though it is still a fantasy, NASA doesn’t think the warp drive is as impossible as was once thought. Something so ambitious is still little more than a fantasy…but a fantasy of some of the smartest people to ever walk this planet. Once thought to be a completely fictional concept, what would intergalactic space exploration be like for we the human race if we were to figure out how to take the faster-than-light propulsion system known as warp drive we’ve seen used in great science fiction pop culture like Star Trek, and make it a reality?
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