The Holy Grail for Light Speed Travel Is Unlimited ‘Vacuum Energy’—And Scientists Desperately Want to Harness It

Casimir cavities are mysterious spaces between microscopic metal plates in a vacuum. Areas of diminished energy between the plates cause them to push toward each other, as if trying to fill the ...
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To Escape Extinction, We Need to Achieve Warp Speed. New Scientific Breakthroughs Suggest It’s Possible.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every Friday night, Alcubierre and his friends would rent a VHS tape of Star Trek: The Next Generation and watch an episode or two ...
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The Coming Warp Era: Inside the Science Powering Humanity’s Next Leap

Standing at the doorstep of an interstellar revolution, scientists are now nearer than ever to breaking the code of warp drives a technology that can propel human civilization throughout the galaxy at ...
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Scientists reveal how humanity could travel insanely fast through deep space

A cluster of recent theoretical papers has laid out mathematical frameworks for propelling spacecraft at speeds ranging from ...
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To Escape Extinction, We Need to Achieve Warp Speed. New Scientific Breakthroughs Suggest It’s Possible.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On one particular Friday night in 1992, Miguel Alcubierre couldn’t stop thinking about Star Trek. For ...