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# science
Paradoxically, we’re both closer and farther from zooming across the galaxy than you might think…
# space
A new estimate for the energy required to power a warp drive puts the theoretical technology well within the realm of plausibility.
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A new paper says that warp drives could bathe planets in apocalyptic radiation storms, but how it arrives at this conclusion raises a lot of questions.
# space
While we'd need to generate an immense amount of energy to power a warp drive, there are events in this universe with that kind of energy output...
# space
The biggest problem with creating a warp drive is coming up with the energy to power one, even for a moment.
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Mathematician with an interest in general relativity, Burkhard Heim, had an idea for a war drive powered not by nuclear fusion or the decay of exotic matter, but by magnets.
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Theoretical warp drives keep finding more ways to kill their users and everything around them. This time, with artificial black holes.
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Warp drives might not just be the fastest way to explore the universe. They might also be weapons of mass destruction on a stellar scale.
# space
Warp drives will work by creating a bubble of twisted space. But the physics of that bubble get very complicated very quickly.
# science
No, we didn’t create a microscopic warp bubble. But we may be getting closer and closer to actually doing it.