“This study changes the conversation about warp drives,” lead author Jared Fuchs said, and that shift matters because the biggest obstacle in warp-drive theory has never been imagination. It has been ...

A series of recent theoretical papers argue that some subluminal “warp-drive” spacetime designs could avoid the traditional requirement for “exotic” negative-energy matter, or at least reduce/shift ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first warp drive design from the early 90s required massive amounts of negative energy, but three decades of honing the math ...

The idea of warp drive—the ability to travel faster than the speed of light—has fascinated humanity for decades. It began as a fictional concept in Star Trek and Star Wars, fueling imaginations and ...