It's the next generation of science.
New research appears to justify a popular sci-fi belief that “warp drives” (known to nerds as the super-powerful space engines from “Star Trek”) actually exist and could be a way to find aliens.
The research team, drawn from prestigious institutions such as the University of Oxford and the Max Planck Institute, focuses on the validity of “faster-than-light travel” and its applications in the search for extraterrestrial life.
Is faster-than-light space travel possible? A group of researchers suggests so. flashmovie – stock.adobe.com
In other words, traces of warp travel could be indicators of non-human travel throughout the universe.
And there is plausibility to their existence, the team said.
The warp drive concept could lead to the search for extraterrestrial life. Getty Images
“Despite its science fiction origins, warp drive is concretely explained by general relativity,” the researchers wrote in the paper's abstract.
“Our work highlights the importance of exploring strange new space-times to (boldly) simulate things no one has seen before.”
The thinker's approach is based on a concept from theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre.
Aliens May Use Warp Drive. Bettman Archives
In the 1990s, the Mexico City-based expert conceptualized the existence of wormholes in space and the possibility that warp power could allow spacecraft to travel at speeds faster than the speed of light.
“It is possible to modify space-time so that a spaceship can travel at any speed,” Alcubierre wrote at the time.
