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Is mankind capable of achieving warp speed?
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Inspired by
Gene Roddenberry’s
Star Trek, physicist
Miguel Alcubierre set out to transform one of the cornerstones of science fiction iconography, the
Warp Drive, into reality. But is it even possible? Can we "warp" the fabric of reality so that we can break the speed of light? And why is
NASA actually exploring this potentiality?
Join Matt on this week’s episode to learn the physics of what's physically possible!
“What Happens At
The Edge of the
Universe”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwwIFcdUFrE
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COMMENTS:
Renato Grigoli (
Chopin)
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Simon Martin
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REFERENCES:
Alcubierre 1994
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0009013
Krasnikov 1995
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9511068
Van Den Broeck
1999
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9906050
Krasnikov
2002
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0207057
Harold White,
Warp Field Mechanics
101
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20110015936
.pdf
Harold White, Warp Field Mechanics 102
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20130011213.pdf
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