{"id":30005,"date":"2016-09-09T14:48:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T21:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/sci-fi-and-sci-fact-understanding-the-star-trek-and-alcubierre-warp-drives"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:17:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:17:11","slug":"sci-fi-and-sci-fact-understanding-the-star-trek-and-alcubierre-warp-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/sci-fi-and-sci-fact-understanding-the-star-trek-and-alcubierre-warp-drives","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Fi and Sci-Fact: Understanding The Star Trek and Alcubierre Warp Drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sci-fi-and-sci-fact-understanding-the-star-trek-and-alcubierre-warp-drives.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Warp drive. It is a technology that humanity has dreamed about for years; however, in reality, it is more than <em>just<\/em> a dream\u2014a number of scientists have long speculated about how such devices would actually work. Unfortunately, the ideas are largely just thought experiments, and most experts don\u2019t think that this technology is likely to develop anytime soon (if at all).<\/p>\n<p>But before I start raining on anyone\u2019s parade, let\u2019s break this technology down a bit.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/sci-fi-becomes-sci-fact-the-real-star-trek\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/sci-fi-becomes-sci-fact-the-real-star-trek\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warp drive. It is a technology that humanity has dreamed about for years; however, in reality, it is more than just a dream\u2014a number of scientists have long speculated about how such devices would actually work. Unfortunately, the ideas are largely just thought experiments, and most experts don\u2019t think that this technology is likely to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30005","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=30005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66295,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30005\/revisions\/66295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}