{"id":189143,"date":"2024-05-11T09:27:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T14:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/warp-drives-may-actually-be-possible-someday-new-study-suggests"},"modified":"2024-05-11T09:27:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T14:27:06","slug":"warp-drives-may-actually-be-possible-someday-new-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/warp-drives-may-actually-be-possible-someday-new-study-suggests","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Warp drives\u2019 may actually be possible someday, new study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/warp-drives-may-actually-be-possible-someday-new-study-suggests2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/21274-star-trek-warp-drive-physics.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/21274-star-trek-warp-drive-physics.html\">Warp drive and \u2018Star Trek\u2019: The physics of future space travel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alcubierre published his idea in Classical and Quantum Gravity. Now, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/1361-6382\/ad26aa\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/1361-6382\/ad26aa\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">a new paper<\/a> in the same journal suggests that a warp drive may not require exotic negative energy after all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis study changes the conversation about warp drives,\u201d lead author Jared Fuchs, of the University of Alabama, Huntsville and the research think tank Applied Physics, said in a statement. \u201cBy demonstrating a first-of-its-kind model, we\u2019ve shown that warp drives might not be relegated to science fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related: Warp drive and \u2018Star Trek\u2019: The physics of future space travel Alcubierre published his idea in Classical and Quantum Gravity. Now, a new paper in the same journal suggests that a warp drive may not require exotic negative energy after all. \u201cThis study changes the conversation about warp drives,\u201d lead author Jared Fuchs, of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189143","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=189143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}