Thursday, August 30, 2018

Is FTL in our Future? (part 4)


Recently, an experiment was performed in the vacuum of space where laser beams were shot into the resonance chamber of an EM drive. Light was resonated to increase in intensity inside the drive, and it was discovered that some of the beams of light seemed to be moving faster than the speed of light constant. In theory, this impossibility was explained by the presence of a warp field—a pocket in space-time. If that pocket or bubble could be formed in front of a rocket or spaceship, space-time could move around the vessel faster than the speed of light. The craft itself would not violate the speed of light, but the bubble would essentially contract space-time around the vessel. Essentially, the ship would be stationary as the bubble moved space-time past it. Rather than searching for ways to violate relativity itself, the focus has become bypassing it. The warp bubble itself relates to the concept of the Alcubierre drive, which contracts space in front of it and expands space behind it. This would allow the warp bubble to appear in flat spacetime and effectively move at faster-than-light speeds! But how does this work?

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