{"id":33802,"date":"2017-01-25T11:04:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T19:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/a-quick-rundown-of-the-alcubierre-warp-drive"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:58:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:58:08","slug":"a-quick-rundown-of-the-alcubierre-warp-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/a-quick-rundown-of-the-alcubierre-warp-drive","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Rundown of the Alcubierre \u201cWarp Drive\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3FWcEtXgK2g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In Brief Science fiction often serves as a curiosity catalyst for a lot of technological innovation. One such example is this Alcubierre Warp Drive, that would absolutely revolutionize the capability of humans to traverse the stars.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s always a welcome thing to learn that ideas that are commonplace in science fiction have a basis in science fact. Cryogenic freezers, laser guns, robots, silicate implants\u2026 and let\u2019s not forget the warp drive! Believe it or not, this concept \u2013 alternately known as FTL (Faster-Than-Light) travel, Hyperspace, Lightspeed, etc. \u2013 actually has one foot in the world of real science.<\/p>\n<p>In physics, it is what is known as the Alcubierre Warp Drive. On paper, it is a highly speculative, but possibly valid, solution of the <a href=\"http:\/\/physics.stackexchange.com\/questions\/179082\/laymans-explanation-and-understanding-of-einsteins-field-equations\">Einstein field equations<\/a>, specifically how space, time and energy interact. In this particular mathematical model of spacetime, there are features that are apparently reminiscent of the fictional \u201cwarp drive\u201d or \u201chyperspace\u201d from notable science fiction franchises, hence the association.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/a-quick-rundown-of-the-alcubierre-warp-drive\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/a-quick-rundown-of-the-alcubierre-warp-drive\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brief Science fiction often serves as a curiosity catalyst for a lot of technological innovation. One such example is this Alcubierre Warp Drive, that would absolutely revolutionize the capability of humans to traverse the stars. It\u2019s always a welcome thing to learn that ideas that are commonplace in science fiction have a basis in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2229,219,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mathematics","category-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33802","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37500,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33802\/revisions\/37500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}