Are boosters about to become obsolete technology?
In the recently published scientific paper, the researchers claim that they have (theoretically) succeeded in creating a warp motor – a motor that can bend space to allow objects to move from one point to another, at instead of using Newton’s applied physics propulsion. The concept of warp drive has always been accompanied by an unproven concept of “negative force”, how did scientists create it?
Before we can learn more about the new breakthrough, we need to know the concept of folding space for travel, a type of movement in the universe that only exists in fiction.
The concept of a “warp engine” came from science fiction, which appeared most in the Star Trek Cinematic Universe. By colliding matter and antimatter and creating massive explosive energy to create thrust, Warp Engines are able to propel cruise ships faster than light. For decades, scientists have wanted to break the upper speed limit. The reason is simple: without warp engines or similar technologies, we will never touch the neighboring star. Even traveling at the speed of light, the journey would take over 4 years.
The earliest understanding of the warp motor dates back to 1994, when theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre introduced the concept of a motor that bends space. From there, we used the name “Alcubierre engine” to refer to a technology that did not yet exist.
The Alcubierre engine, which makes it possible to travel at the speed of light, is still compatible with Einstein’s general theory of relativity. “By extending, purely, the space-time behind the cruise ship and reducing the space-time in front of the train, the fact that a person standing outside the space disturbance – Observable time is possible to move faster than the speed of light, “says Miguel Alcubierre in his scientific report.
Essentially, the Alcubierre engine uses an enormous amount of energy – perhaps more than the total amount in existence – to contract and twist the spacetime around the spacecraft to create a bubble, isolated from the surrounding space. Located in this bubble, the traveler will not feel his movement.
Think of it like this: the space-time panel is a tablecloth, the bowl on top is the cruise ship, and the Alcubierre motor will pull the slick without falling.
Using a large amount of energy and a matter that exists only in the imagination – negative energy, the Alcubierre engine contracts and expands space-time to move the ship. Many scientists are skeptical when this fictitious engine uses too many unproven concepts, and it’s unclear when we’ll actually be successful. NASA spent decades trying to build warp engines, but failed.
A new research conducted by scientists from the Advanced Thrust Laboratory (APL) has just been published and has been censored by the scientific council opens a new ray of hope. In their report, the APL team released the first model of the warp motor, and the special thing is that it does not use negative energy.
This is the main content of the research report compiled by Popular Mechanics: In older models, warp engines use negative energy – which is the type of matter that does not exist (or at least does not yet) and does not. can not. Compatible with knowledge of contemporary physics; In the new model, researchers use an entire space-time bubble to travel, rather than a chain ship.
The new engine model works on the flexibility of space-time bubbles, and they can be used in many different ways. The PLA research team even said that this was not the only way to bend space and be able (in theory) to build an engine adapted with existing concepts and theories of physics.
Warp engines only exist in the “far future”, however, as the technology is still built from untested concepts. Currently, researchers have only “found a way to construct such objects based on the laws of physics well understood by science.”
There is no bias pattern for interstellar travel today, tomorrow, or even the next century, but the new research is still far from over. Just go to the destination that! With an engine that could bend space, bring the destination closer to the cruise ship, it doesn’t seem like we have to wait too long to see the technology as magical as the ultimate magic.
