{"id":172342,"date":"2023-09-19T09:25:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T14:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/fact-check-do-warp-drive-engines-violate-the-laws-of-physics"},"modified":"2023-09-19T09:25:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T14:25:31","slug":"fact-check-do-warp-drive-engines-violate-the-laws-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/fact-check-do-warp-drive-engines-violate-the-laws-of-physics","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check: Do Warp Drive Engines Violate the Laws of Physics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fact-check-do-warp-drive-engines-violate-the-laws-of-physics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The universe is bigger than you think.<\/p>\n<p>This means any deep-space future awaiting humanity outside our solar system will remain beyond the span of a single life until we develop a means of propulsion that outclasses conventional rockets. And, when three studies rocked the world earlier this year, it felt like a dream come true: Warp drive was no longer science fiction, potentially unlocking a theoretical basis to build faster-than-light warp drive engines that could cut a trip to Mars down to minutes.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2105.03079\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a recent study<\/a> shared in a preprint journal cast doubt on the theory, pointing to a gap in the math that could put the viability of a physical warp drive back into the realm of speculation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The universe is bigger than you think. This means any deep-space future awaiting humanity outside our solar system will remain beyond the span of a single life until we develop a means of propulsion that outclasses conventional rockets. And, when three studies rocked the world earlier this year, it felt like a dream come true: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,2229,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-mathematics","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172342","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}