In physics, it is what is known as the Alcubierre Warp Drive. On paper, it is a highly speculative, but possibly valid, solution of the Einstein field equations, specifically how space, time and ...

Is The Alcubierre Warp Drive Possible? Season 2 Episode 6 | 7m 21s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Inspired by Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek, physicist Miguel Alcubierre set out to transform one ...

Arvix – Metamaterial-based model of the Alcubierre warp drive by Igor I. Smolyaninov of the University of Maryland.. Alcubierre imagined a small volume of flat spacetime in which a spacecraft sits, ...

Artist’s concept of a spacecraft using an Alcubierre Warp Drive. Credit: NASA. One of the reasons for this is because this method would not rely on moving faster than light in the local sense ...

I n 1994, Mexican theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre decided to figure out if the "warp drive" from his favorite science fiction shows was possible. Amazingly, he found a way to make it ...

Universe Today has the full 11 page article, The Alcubierre Warp Drive: On the Matter of Matter by the University of Sydney. The region of space behind a superluminally travelling warp bubble is ...

The Alcubierre drive is, of course, still highly speculative. NASA scientists are working with small-scale models in an effort to produce localized distortions in space, but this new Aussie ...

HOUSTON — A warp drive to achieve faster-than-light travel — a concept popularized in television's Star Trek — may not be as unrealistic as once thought, scientists say.

An Alcubierre warp drive would involve a football-shape spacecraft attached to a large ring encircling it. This ring, potentially made of exotic matter, ...