Star Trek's Warp Drive - Are we there yet?

Marc Millis, former head of NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project, explains how physicists approach the intriguing possibility of faster-than-light travel.

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• Star Trek
• Faster than light
• Warp Drive

[maskscraper]

or can anyone of us just be a GOOD KID to hitch a ride by "Dear Santa"? or just DIY to make a "vortex manipulator" from The Tourchwood? or any useful stuff from Tesla, Einstein, Hawkins, or even Newton? or Perhaps Bart Allen can feel something when breaking the warp barrier!

[TheRealGeriBoss]

@maskscraper Wow. That was the most extensive recitation of fictional FTL propulsion devices I've ever seen.

[Shqiptari37]

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[kozak317]

It feels to me that there are a few pre-requisites before we can see an Alcubierre drive.

1) Improved tools to manipulate molecules

2) Quantum computing

3) Advanced new energy source

4) Engineer an Alcubierre drive itself

Now, who is working on item #1? :)

[maskscraper]

have we got any Stargate in Cheyenne Mountain or Egypt (Stargate)? or a Ferengi shuttle in Roswell (Star Trek DS9)? or can we call The Doctor and study the TARDIS? or a frozen Megatron in the Hoover Dam? or a Timeship called Aeon

stored in the quarters of Chronowerx Industries (Star Trek Voy)? or a DeLorean DMC-12 (Back to the Future)? or The Time Machine invented by "The Traveller" or HG Wells?

Come on, we have got so many clues for warp drive! or Superman base in North Pole? or the Santa t

[burnout002NL1]

@Zurround100

yes space between the galaxies move faster than light,but it does not move information faster than light. So it does not violate the laws of physics. How can you travel faster than the fastest thing in de universe.In the normal way of travel you can not travel faster than light. That is a fact. I do not now if warpdrives or wormholes are possible.

[Zurround100]

our machines mirror what nature does, our airplanes have aerodynamics similar to birds and our submarines are shaped like fish. We now know that faster than light travel is possible because it happens in nature the galaxies are moving away from each other faster than light, so maybe we can use that same force of nature to move a space ship?

[Nibinaear]

In the next generation there are no conflicts between the main characters, this rule was broken afterwards I think.

"Little did I know how things would be held back". I wonder what he was referring to.

[bahamut6667]

NOTHING is impossible we just need to find the technology like now it would be stupid for some 1 to say i can fly with no wings but thousands of years from now we might be able to make our bodies strong but at the same time getting rid of all the empty spaces between our atoms to make us lighter than air just cos it is impossible now dont mean it alwayse will be if u compress all living things in this world to as small as it can go with no empty space we would be no bigger than a sugar cube FACT

[been01010]

true that