{"id":120747,"date":"2021-03-21T04:22:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T11:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/spacecraft-in-a-warp-bubble-could-travel-faster-than-light-claims-physicist"},"modified":"2021-03-21T04:22:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T11:22:49","slug":"spacecraft-in-a-warp-bubble-could-travel-faster-than-light-claims-physicist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/spacecraft-in-a-warp-bubble-could-travel-faster-than-light-claims-physicist","title":{"rendered":"Spacecraft in a \u2018warp bubble\u2019 could travel faster than light, claims physicist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacecraft-in-a-warp-bubble-could-travel-faster-than-light-claims-physicist.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Albert Einstein\u2019s special theory of relativity famously dictates that no known object can travel faster than the speed of light in vacuum, which is 299792 km\/s. This speed limit makes it unlikely that humans will ever be able to send spacecraft to explore beyond our local area of the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>However, new research by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eriklentzphd.com\/\">Erik Lentz<\/a> at the University of G\u00f6ttingen suggests a way beyond this limit. The catch is that his scheme requires vast amounts of energy and it may not be able to propel a spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>Lentz proposes that conventional energy sources could be capable of arranging the structure of spacetime in the form of a soliton \u2013 a robust singular wave. This soliton would act like a \u201cwarp bubble\u2019\u201d, contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind. Unlike objects within spacetime, spacetime itself can bend, expand or warp at any speed. Therefore, a spacecraft contained in a hyper-fast bubble could arrive at its destination faster than light would in normal space without breaking any physical laws, even Einstein\u2019s cosmic speed limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Einstein\u2019s special theory of relativity famously dictates that no known object can travel faster than the speed of light in vacuum, which is 299792 km\/s. This speed limit makes it unlikely that humans will ever be able to send spacecraft to explore beyond our local area of the Milky Way. However, new research by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120747","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}