{"id":103177,"date":"2020-03-03T07:07:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T15:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/scientists-are-starting-to-take-warp-drives-seriously-especially-this-one-concept"},"modified":"2020-03-03T07:07:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T15:07:49","slug":"scientists-are-starting-to-take-warp-drives-seriously-especially-this-one-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/scientists-are-starting-to-take-warp-drives-seriously-especially-this-one-concept","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Are Starting to Take Warp Drives Seriously, Especially This One Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-are-starting-to-take-warp-drives-seriously-especially-this-one-concept3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard living in a relativistic Universe, where even the nearest stars are so far away and the speed of light is absolute. It is little wonder then why science fiction franchises routinely employ FTL (Faster-than-Light) as a plot device.<\/p>\n<p>Push a button, press a petal, and that fancy drive system \u2013 whose workings no one can explain \u2013 will send us to another location in space-time.<\/p>\n<p>However, in recent years, the scientific community has become understandably excited and skeptical about claims that a particular concept \u2013 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/89074\/what-is-the-alcubierre-warp-drive\/\">Alcubierre Warp Drive<\/a> \u2013 might actually be feasible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard living in a relativistic Universe, where even the nearest stars are so far away and the speed of light is absolute. It is little wonder then why science fiction franchises routinely employ FTL (Faster-than-Light) as a plot device. Push a button, press a petal, and that fancy drive system \u2013 whose workings no [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}