{"id":120220,"date":"2021-03-04T09:25:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T17:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/engineers-have-proposed-the-first-model-for-a-physically-possible-warp-drive"},"modified":"2021-03-04T09:25:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T17:25:07","slug":"engineers-have-proposed-the-first-model-for-a-physically-possible-warp-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/engineers-have-proposed-the-first-model-for-a-physically-possible-warp-drive","title":{"rendered":"Engineers Have Proposed The First Model For a Physically Possible Warp Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-have-proposed-the-first-model-for-a-physically-possible-warp-drive2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The idea of a warp drive taking us across large areas of space faster than the speed of light has long fascinated scientists and sci-fi fans alike. While we\u2019re still a very long way from jumping any universal speed limits, that doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019ll never ride the waves of warped space-time.<\/p>\n<p>Now a group of physicists have put together the first proposal for a physical warp drive, based on a concept devised back in the \u201990s. And they say it shouldn\u2019t break any of laws of physics.<\/p>\n<p>Theoretically speaking, warp drives bend and change the shape of space-time to exaggerate differences in time and distance that, under some circumstances, could see travelers move across distances faster than the speed of light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of a warp drive taking us across large areas of space faster than the speed of light has long fascinated scientists and sci-fi fans alike. While we\u2019re still a very long way from jumping any universal speed limits, that doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019ll never ride the waves of warped space-time. Now a group of [\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-120220","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\/120220","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=120220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}