{"id":94376,"date":"2019-08-02T10:42:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T17:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/nasa-faster-than-speed-of-light-space-travel-will-warp-bubbles-enable-dreams-of-interstellar-voyages"},"modified":"2019-08-02T10:42:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T17:42:28","slug":"nasa-faster-than-speed-of-light-space-travel-will-warp-bubbles-enable-dreams-of-interstellar-voyages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/nasa-faster-than-speed-of-light-space-travel-will-warp-bubbles-enable-dreams-of-interstellar-voyages","title":{"rendered":"NASA \u2013Faster-than-Speed-of-Light Space Travel? \u201cWill \u2018Warp Bubbles\u2019 Enable Dreams of Interstellar Voyages?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-faster-than-speed-of-light-space-travel-will-warp-bubbles-enable-dreams-of-interstellar-voyages2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A number of NASA scientists are currently researching the feasibility of warp drive (and EMdrive and a number of other modes of faster than light travel); however, most scientists think that such forms of space travel simply aren\u2019t viable, thanks to the fundamental physics of our universe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoutine travel among the stars is impossible without new discoveries regarding the fabric of space and time, or capability to manipulate it for our needs,\u201d says Neil deGrasse Tyson, the \u201cCosmos famous\u201d astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History, said \u201cBy my read, the idea of a functioning warp drive remains far-fetched, but the real take-away is that people are thinking about it \u2014 reminding us all that the urge to explore continues to run deep in our species.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There have been hints the past few years that NASA may be on the path to discovering warp bubbles that could make the local universe accessible for human exploration. NASA scientists may be close announcing they may have broken the speed of light. According to state-of-the art theory, a warp drive could cut the travel time between stars from tens of thousands of years to weeks or months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of NASA scientists are currently researching the feasibility of warp drive (and EMdrive and a number of other modes of faster than light travel); however, most scientists think that such forms of space travel simply aren\u2019t viable, thanks to the fundamental physics of our universe. \u201cRoutine travel among the stars is impossible without [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94376","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}