In order to explore the prospect of traveling faster than the speed of light, NASA is now developing the first real-world test. The Alcubierre Drive, developed by Harold White and his NASA team, revolutionized the perception that traveling faster than light was only possible in science fiction.
Even if special relativity may be valid, we might not require a vehicle that can move at the speed of light in order to travel faster or at that speed. The answer might lie in putting a craft inside a space that is travelling faster than light! As a result, the craft itself does not need a propulsion system that can propel it at the speed of light.
If you imagine it as a flat escalator in an airport, it will be simpler to think about. You’re walking slower than the escalator is going. In this scenario, the space surrounding the spacecraft would be moving more quickly than the ship could fly, preserving all of the ship’s material. In a cloud of massless space-time, we can therefore move more quickly than the speed of light.
The Alcubierre Drive is what? It truly rests on Einstein’s field equations and proposes that a spaceship would be able to travel faster than light. A spacecraft would jump great distances by constricting space in front of it and expanding space behind it rather than exceeding the speed of light on its own. As a result, this would enable faster-than-light travel (1). We believe that Miguel Alcubierre, a physicist, was the first to recognize this possibility. He defined it as staying motionless inside a warp bubble that was propelled at “superluminal” (faster than light) velocity while traveling through a flat region of space-time. We must remember that space-time can be pushed, bent, and altered. But what about moving sections of space-time that’s created by expanding space-time behind the ship, and by contracting space-time in front of the ship?
Recently, mathematicians James Hill and Barry Cox from the University of Adelaide illustrated a similar idea. In the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences, they published a paper (3).
It was once thought that because of Einstein’s special theory of relativity, traveling faster than the speed of light is simply impossible. This is incorrect; special relativity merely asserts that your journey distance depends on your speed and duration of motion. Hence, if you’re traveling at 70 mph, one hour will have seen you travel 70 miles. The perplexing thing is that you will always perceive the speed of light as being constant, regardless of how quickly you are going. Similar to sound, you can recognize objects by their sounds if you close your eyes and pretend that your only sense is hearing. So if a car is driving at a rapid speed and honks its horn, we know that the horn is always tooting the same tone, it’s just the car’s motion that made it appear to change.
The electromagnetic fields that connect the atoms and molecules that make up matter—the same ones that bring up light—were also revealed to us by special relativity. The substance that makes up the light speed barrier is also present in the thing that would breach it. How can something move more quickly than the forces that hold its atoms together? The obstacle was this.
The only issue with modern science, according to some, is that it requires energy densities that are currently beyond the capabilities of humans. Alcubierre’s model is currently being modified by NASA scientists.
Faster-than-light travel, also known as hyper space or “warp” drive from what the masses know for sure is currently at the level of speculation. Although there is already a lot of evidence that shows it is possible and has already been accomplished, mainstream science is still catching up. We are at the point right now where faster-than-light travel is still theoretical, but possible.
At the same time, we have to look at other factors that are now coming to light. As former NASA Astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor Dr, Brian O’leary Illustrates. This topic has recently had another media explosion and congress recently discussed and looked at evidence for Earth like planets recently found by Kepler Telescopes. Three “super-Earths” to be exact that are most probably teeming with life (4). Furthermore, former congressmen and women recently participated in a citizens hearing on the subject of UFOs a few weeks ago. You can read more about that here. I’ve used this video in many articles before, but it’s just a great clip from when Dr O’leary was still with us.
UFOs and the technology behind it should not be subject to speculation. Odds are we have retrieved some of that technology, or manufactured some ourselves. Some of our science may not be so theoretical after all.
