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fromFast Company
1 day ago

A faster-than-light spaceship would actually look a lot like Star Trek's Enterprise

Inside those nacelles, the show's creators imagined, lay the secret that made those trips possible: a warp drive that could crease spacetime itself, folding the universe in front of the ship while unfurling it behind, allowing faster-than-light travel not through speed but through geometry. For decades, physicists dismissed it as beautiful nonsense-a prop master's fever dream. But now the math has caught up to the dream.
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fromMail Online
7 months ago

Scientists say Star Wars-like travel between galaxies could be real

Warp drives could enable faster-than-light travel by bending spacetime, as theorized by scientists.
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