The Alcubierre Drive, a means of faster than light speed travel?

6 June 2013

Could NASA be developing a means of moving through space at speeds greater than light? Apparently so. The trick though to travel at speeds faster than light is to generate a space, rather than a craft, that exceeds light speed, and then slot a vessel into that space.

It’d be as if you were going down a water slide, or something, where the water is moving you, and you’re just along for the ride.

Traveling faster than light has always been attributed to science fiction, but that all changed when Harold White and his team at NASA started to work on and tweak the Alcubierre Drive. Special relativity may hold true, but to travel faster or at the speed of light we might not need a craft that can travel at that speed. The solution might be to place a craft within a space that is moving faster than the speed of light! Therefore the craft itself does not have to travel at the speed of light from it\’s own type of propulsion system.

Intriguing, if nothing else.

Originally published Thursday 6 June 2013, with subsequent revisions, updates to lapsed URLs, etc.