Scientists Found a Way to Travel Faster Than Light!
Scientists Found a Way to Travel Faster Than Light!
Spaceships capable of warp-speed travel might seem like something out of a science fiction novel, but one leading scientist says it's not impossible.
Dr. Erik Lentz recently published a report outlining a method by which a rocket might hypothetically travel faster than light or more than 186,000 miles per second.
Colonizing other planets in the galaxy would only take a few years if astronauts could travel that fast.
The closest star to the Sun, Proxima Centauri, would take about 6,300 years to travel with today's rocket technology.
Although the concept of "warp drives" has been floated before, most proposed devices violate known physical laws.
The reason being nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, as predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity.
However, Dr. Lentz, a scientist at Germany's Göttingen University, claims his made-up warp drive would be physically feasible.
His solution uses a new theoretical particle to avoid the need for "exotic" ideas like negative energy, which are used by competing theories.
Concepts For Spaceships Based On The Assumed Morphologies Of Several "Warp Bubbles"
A news statement from Göttingen University claims that ultra-fast "solitons" can move at any speed while still adhering to the laws of physics.
Often called a "warp bubble," a soliton is a type of compact wave that behaves like a particle by keeping its shape and traveling at a steady speed.
According to Dr. Lentz, he came up with his theory by analyzing the literature and identifying blind spots in the investigation of warp drive.
He thinks solitons can create conducting plasma and classical electromagnetic fields that can move faster than light.
Both of these ideas are consistent with Einstein's theory of relativity and are well-known within the framework of classical physics.
His warp drive offers the tantalizing prospect of faster-than-light travel, but it is currently only a concept.
The quantity of energy needed to run the device is simply not feasible with today's technology.
Dr. Lentz indicated that in order to be feasible for current nuclear fission reactors, the energy savings would need to be roughly 30 orders of magnitude.
Many energy-saving strategies have been presented in previous studies, and if implemented, they have the potential to reduce the required energy by over 60 orders of magnitude.
According to Dr. Lentz, his hypothetical warp drive would not violate any physical laws.
The astrophysicist has stated that he will be putting his efforts into developing a functional prototype of the device.
"Our effort has taken the problem of faster-than-light travel one step away from theoretical research in fundamental physics and closer to engineering," Dr. Lentz added.
Now we have to find out how to get that staggering quantity of energy down to something that can be produced by something like a large modern nuclear fission power station.
When that's done, we can start discussing making working models.
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