{"id":111820,"date":"2020-08-23T16:01:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T23:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/nasa-boffin-invents-engine-concept-that-travels-at-99-the-speed-of-light-and-it-could-break-the-laws-of-physics"},"modified":"2020-08-23T16:01:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T23:01:29","slug":"nasa-boffin-invents-engine-concept-that-travels-at-99-the-speed-of-light-and-it-could-break-the-laws-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/nasa-boffin-invents-engine-concept-that-travels-at-99-the-speed-of-light-and-it-could-break-the-laws-of-physics","title":{"rendered":"NASA boffin invents \u2018engine concept\u2019 that travels at 99% the speed of light \u2013 and it could \u2018break the laws of physics\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-boffin-invents-engine-concept-that-travels-at-99-the-speed-of-light-and-it-could-break-the-laws-of-physics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O,.o earth to Mars 12.5 minutes.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A NASA scientist has cooked up plans for a bonkers new rocket engine that can reach close to the speed of light \u2013 without using any fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Travelling at such speeds, the theoretical machine could carry astronauts to Mars in less than 13 minutes, or to the Moon in just over a second.<\/p>\n<p>However, the real purpose of the so-called \u201chelical engine\u201d would be to travel to distant stars far quicker than any existing tech, according to NASA engineer Dr David Burns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O,.o earth to Mars 12.5 minutes. A NASA scientist has cooked up plans for a bonkers new rocket engine that can reach close to the speed of light \u2013 without using any fuel. Travelling at such speeds, the theoretical machine could carry astronauts to Mars in less than 13 minutes, or to the Moon in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111820","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\/111820","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}