Ask Question Asked 3 years, 1 month ago. The concept was first proposed by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre. CNN gave the news on 06/18/2014 but advances had been in the works at least officially for a few years. In physics, it is what is known as the Alcubierre Warp Drive. A ring-shaped warp drive device could transport a football-shape starship (center) to effective speeds faster than light. A ring-shaped warp drive device could transport a football-shape starship (center) to effective speeds faster than light.
Special relativity may hold true, but to travel faster or at the speed of light we might not need a craft that can travel at that speed. An Alcubierre Warp Drive stretches spacetime in a wave causing the fabric of space ahead of a spacecraft to contract and the space behind it to expand. The Alcubierre warp drive does not have a limit to how fast it can travel. However, and this is a big however, what makes AD improbable or implausible for our current civilization is how to make it work. The concept of a warp drive proposed by Alcubierre, and Natário does not allow for a ship itself to exceed the speed of light. Relativistic effects happen when you travel near light speed through space-time. Unfortunately your question reveals that you shouldn’t even be having this discussion.
It’s actually based on Einsteins field equations, it suggests that a spacecraft could achieve faster-than-light travel. These physicists found that the ultimate warp speed limit (for an Alcubierre warp drive) is 10 32 C – or roughly 3.3 trillion trillion light years per second. Rather than exceed the speed of light alone in a craft, a spacecraft would leap long distances by contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind it. Traveling faster than light has always been attributed to science fiction, but that all changed when Harold White and his team at NASA started to work on and tweak the Alcubierre Drive. What is the Alcubierre Drive?
The news mentioned travelling “faster than the speed of light” which is not quite accurate but, nonetheless, the possibility of developing technology to In layman's terms, the Alcubierre Drive achieves FTL travel by stretching the fabric of space-time in a wave, causing the space ahead of it to contract while the space behind it expands. The “Alcubierre Drive” (based on a paper published in 1994 by Miguel Alcubierre) is becoming feasible. Active 3 years, 1 month ago. Inside observers have no acceleration. The Alcubierre drive works like a physics version of a classic party trick. Alcubierre drive is a sound way, under the current laws of physics, to explain a valid way of travel faster-than-light and the only way (unless wormholes are ever observed) to “break” the speed of light. In theory, a spacecraft inside this wave would be able to ride this "warp bubble" and achieve velocities beyond the speed … Viewed 307 times 3.
Reaching this speed would require an incomprehensible 10 31 J of energy. The ship can ride the wave to accelerate to high speeds and time travel. So if it only took a week for you, it would only take a week for your observers. With the Alcubierre drive, you don't travel through space-time, but remain stationary and the space-time around you is warped in a way that brings you closer to your destination.
The concept was first proposed by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre.
It is the warp bubble that travels past the speed of light from the perspective of outside observers.