While working on a completely unrelated DARPA-funded research focused on Casimir cavities – theoretical nano-structures that might have a number of promising applications in technology and mechanics – White noticed a similarity to the old warp drive models. Credit: LSI Scientists have found a way to create a warp bubble An illustration of the theoretical structure of a warp bubble. A decade later, in December 2021, the same researcher reported the successful creation of a genuine ‘warp bubble’, albeit miniature. ![]() In his paper from 2011 – ‘Warp Field Mechanics 101’, White stated that the tools necessary to create a modest version of the system are close at hand. White reworked the design in a way that reduced those requirements to make it more possible at least for the distant future. White, a former warp drive specialist from NASA. That was until the original Alcubierre model was improved by Dr. While the model received appraisal from certain experts, others denied it due to the extreme requirements – theoretical materials and amounts of energy that were impossible to engineer. His model included the creation of a ‘warp bubble’ around a spaceship that would compress space-time in front and behind the spacecraft, allowing the spacecraft in the middle to travel at superluminal speed. The pioneer of the first valid theory was Miguel Alcubierre, a Mexican mathematician, who proposed a clever solution in 1994. Scientific efforts and theoretical warp drives In early December 2021, researchers reported the successful creation of a warp bubble, or more precisely – a miniature nano-scale version of the proposed model, which will be researched and analyzed for the possible construction of a full-scale ‘warp craft’. Since the 90s, scientists have been creating theoretical models, some of which are in accordance with the accepted laws of physics and some not, in order to prove or at least outline the requirements for such a system to exist. ![]() ![]() Science fiction ‘invented’ the warp drive decades ago – a system for space travel that allows spacecraft to travel faster than the speed of light.
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