In the footsteps of the Curvature Engine or Alcubierre.
In the footsteps of the Curvature Engine or Alcubierre.
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What is a warp drive? It is a propulsion idea that would allow a ship to travel faster than light and that arose in the fictional universe of Star Trek, yes it is science fiction, but good science fiction can give ideas and inspire scientists to create new things, in real science, the most famous engine of this type is that of Alcubierre, a Mexican scientist who published a study in 1994.
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The study that is in the news now helps us get what we don't have, well no, the value of the study presents the situation the other way around, we are not sure because everything above could be wrong, maybe we are in error and it cannot be build a warp engine, but imagine that it can be built, imagine that it can be built in the distant future, with much superior technology, perhaps within a few centuries.
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This is what a paper that has yet to be peer-reviewed, by a team of researchers from a leading Campus including Oxford, UK and the Max Planck Institute in Germany, suggests that the collapse of a bubble of curvature of Alcubierre could generate gravitational waves that we would be able to detect using instruments such as the gravitational wave observatory, the fact that it is within the possible does not mean that it is easy, it would be necessary to identify what type of signal produces the collapse of a bubble of curvature, which is supposed to occur when the ship reaches its destination and the warping of the fabric of space-time has to be dissolved in some radical way.
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