{"id":135162,"date":"2022-02-03T13:23:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T21:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/sadly-the-warp-bubble-is-still-in-beta"},"modified":"2022-02-03T13:23:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T21:23:28","slug":"sadly-the-warp-bubble-is-still-in-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/sadly-the-warp-bubble-is-still-in-beta","title":{"rendered":"Sadly, the \u2018Warp Bubble\u2019 is Still in Beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sadly-the-warp-bubble-is-still-in-beta.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sorry to our fellow hopeful space nerds, but we have to burst everyone\u2019s warp bubble. Despite recent reports that scientists have \u201caccidentally created a warp bubble,\u201d it looks like warp speed is still a few baby steps away. But all hope is not lost: a group of scientists led by Dr. Harold G. \u201cSunny\u201d White has proposed a structure that could actually be built in the real world and used to study the Casimir effect. It might be a baby step, but it\u2019s a real one.<\/p>\n<p><b>Breaking the \u2018cosmic speed limit\u2019 with the Casimir effect<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To make a warp drive, first you need to master the Casimir effect. The Casimir effect, for the uninitiated, is a very small attractive force that exists between two uncharged but conductive parallel plates that are held very, very close together. It used to be a purely hypothetical offshoot of relativity. However, now that we\u2019ve seen it happen in real life, it\u2019s high on the list of real-world phenomena scientists are investigating to figure out how we might finally crack the problem of interstellar space exploration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry to our fellow hopeful space nerds, but we have to burst everyone\u2019s warp bubble. Despite recent reports that scientists have \u201caccidentally created a warp bubble,\u201d it looks like warp speed is still a few baby steps away. But all hope is not lost: a group of scientists led by Dr. Harold G. \u201cSunny\u201d White [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135162","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}