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Ahead Warp factor 2 please. The super scientists with projects sponsored by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency get all the really cool toys to play with. Dr. Harold White made a universe fabric ripping discovery, entirely by accident. Once thought impossible, faster than light travel just beamed off the pages of science fiction and materialized here in the real world.
Warp bubbles in the lab
“To be clear, our finding is not a warp bubble analog, it is a real, albeit humble and tiny, warp bubble,” announces Dr. Harold G “Sonny” White.
His team at the Limitless Space Institute “spotted an interesting encounter that could be used by the spacecraft for faster travels.”
Hard to believe but true, this really is the “world’s first warp bubble.” The ironic part is that for as hard as we’ve been looking for something like this, it “emerged as a recent accidental discovery.”
Everybody these days takes the faster than light concept as a matter of course but what’s this “bubble” part, most folks wonder. It’s a great question with a fascinating answer worthy of Spock himself.
The thing that gets Dr. White all excited is an obscure theory by mathematician Miguel Alcubierre but he wasn’t working on that. He was working for the defense department on “a project studying Casimir cavities and their ability to produce energy.”
The magic happened all by itself at an improbability factor of around two-to-the-power-of-Infinity-minus-one to one against. An engineer “conducting the research at the exact right time — one who was familiar with warp technology research and knew what he was looking at” suddenly realized “that this totally unrelated research had produced a warp bubble.”
The real deal
The totally exciting part is that the “observed effect was not an analog, not something similar to a warp bubble, but a very small, very humble, true to life structure that matched Alcubierre’s research perfectly.”
Now that we know how to make them, we can try to make bigger ones. “This means that warp field theory has made the move from outlandish science fiction into something that we can actually build in the real world, using tools and technology we already have.”
That old guy with the freaky hairdo, Albert Einstein, went to his grave swearing up and down that nothing could ever go faster than a speeding photon. The math won’t let it happen. While the laws of physics are the only ones you can’t break, Dr. White and his team found a way to bend them.
By using an “Alcubierre warp bubble” an engineer could put a spaceship into the bottle, where it drops out of existence. “If you surrounded the local Euclidean space your ship occupies with a warp bubble, and then push the warp bubble instead of the ship itself, Einstein’s equation is sidestepped. It’s still valid inside the warp bubble, but the bubble itself can theoretically move faster than light without breaking the laws of physics.”
The work was published in European Physical Journal with the headline “a micro/nano-scale structure has been discovered that predicts negative energy density distribution that closely matches requirements for the Alcubierre metric.”
For people who’s mind goes in a tailspin just from the title, that means “scientific study of the potential of warp drive is now officially on the table.”
