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New warp drive math drops exotic matter but keeps giant obstacles

A warp drive no longer has to begin with impossible matter. That shift is why a new class of spacetime models has drawn so much attention. For decades, warp-drive discussions were trapped by the same ...
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New warp drive models shift star travel from fantasy to physics

What if the biggest change in warp-drive research is not speed, but credibility? For decades, the idea sat in an awkward ...
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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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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 ...