Produced by: Manoj Kumar
Faster-than-light travel, once confined to sci-fi, is being explored through Hawking-inspired physics.
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Warp drives work by compressing spacetime in front of a spacecraft and stretching it behind, shortening travel distances.
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Creating warp drives requires negative energy matter, a substance not yet known to exist in usable form.
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Warp drives could create closed time-like curves, raising concerns about causality violations in physics.
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Stephen Hawking’s work on quantum physics and gravity has inspired research into the possibility of warp bubbles.
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Gravitational waves, detected by instruments like LIGO, could reveal clues about warp bubble mechanics.
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Alcubierre’s warp drive model provides a framework to predict how spacetime distortions might behave.
The collapse of a warp bubble would unleash violent energy waves, potentially tearing apart the ship’s crew.
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Current technology lacks the capacity to generate or sustain the immense energy needed for warp drives.
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