A peer-reviewed study asserts that faster-than-light travel is achievable

“We Can Now Harness Warp Drive Technology for Practical Space Travel!”

More recent research such as the one by Dr. Erik Lentz provides evidence of FTL travel using physics that is currently available, a shift from the theoretical exotic matter. The idea that Lentz called his model bends spacetime to move spaceship may turn science fiction into reality in the shortest possible time. This breakthrough, therefore, helps cut the time it takes to cover interstellar distances to doable values, which can get one to Proxima Centauri within a few years. Such works are being made practical through collaborations with startups such Applied Physics. Find out how far off it is to begin actualizing the sci-fi dream of space travel!

Warp Drive, Engage!

The latest research points to the fact that ‘warp drive’ that ‘Star Trek’ made popular as a way to travel faster than the speed of light might not be as unrealistic as once thought.

In the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity, Dr. Erik Lentz of Göttingen University in Germany has mentioned that using conventional physics, the FTL speed can be achieved, Popular Mechanics said. This is quite in contrast with the previous preconceptions regarding the warping mechanism of the drive technology as requiring exotic matter.

“This work has taken the issue of faster than light travel one step from philosophy in physics and one step to engineering. ” Lentz said.

Next Stop: Proxima Centauri

To put things in perspective: If one had to travel to the further most planet using the fastest rocket presently on this planet it would still take over 50000 years to get to Proxima Centauri the star closest to our solar system apart from the Sun. That is a long list of podcasts to listen in one endeavoured journey.

However, the same journey if made using FTL warp drive, the time taken will just be two to three years.

A warp drive would work by creating a ‘bubble’ around the spaceship that could then travel at faster than light velocity. As with kinetic occlusions, the warp drives in use today rely on the theoretical idea of “negative energy”, or the benefits are questionable if the thing even exists.

This is why Lentz’s model is so exciting to those seeking to get to the root of the problem. But if future propulsion systems can be derived from known physics, then it becomes much more reasonable.

Lentz pointed out that there are more steps to be taken before a viable system could be developed – one had to bring the energy requirements down to the levels of today’s technology: ‘The next step is to get the energy down to something in the range of a large modern nuclear fission power plant if you really want to start talking about; building the first prototypes. ’

Warp Drives, So Hot Right Now

Lentz’s work occurs at about the same time that other advances are being made in warp speed technologies.

Just last month Futurism featured another work I did, also in Classical and Quantum Gravity, with a start up called Applied Physics. As Lentz did, they go further and argue that warp drives could be constructed within the available physics currently understood in the universe.

But there is much that scientists working on the project still have to devise before we can start ordering tickets to the next nearest stars. But we’re getting tantalisingly close to really getting to live out that USS Enterprise fantasy. I hope we do not meet any Borgs on the way though.

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