Showing posts with label Warp drive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Warp drive. Show all posts

Friday, May 01, 2015

NASA One Step Closer To Warp Drive?

NASA One Step Closer To Warp Drive?

By Eric Mack
www.cnet.com
4-29-15
NASA is reportedly working on technology that could take us to the moon faster than a cross-country flight.
      Potentially good news for those who want to zip around our solar system, and beyond, at speeds approaching that of light -- and maybe even faster.

NASA, according to NASASpaceFlight.com, is quietly claiming to have successfully tested a revolutionary new means of space travel that could one day allow for such insane speed, and to have done it in a hard vacuum like that of outer space for the first time.

The technology is based on the electromagnetic drive, or EM drive. . . .
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Saturday, December 27, 2014

Man Works on Warp Drive in His Garage

Working Toward a Warp Drive in His Garage Lab
David Pares points to the Faraday cage that he uses in his warp drive experiments in the garage of his Aksarben-area home.

By Casey Logan
www.omaha.com
12-26-14

     You might not believe any of this stuff. But suspend your disbelief for a moment and make space for something incredible. . . .

. . . Like here in David Pares’ garage. . . .

Pares is making his own warp drive.

To hear him and his small team of supporters tell it, something weird is happening out here in the garage.

“The compression of the fabric of space,” Pares says matter-of-factly.

Pares’ garage is exactly as it sounds. This is not some converted hangar or temperature-controlled shed. Pares’ laboratory, the headquarters for his Space Warp Dynamics endeavor, is attached to the mid-size Aksarben-area home where he lives with his wife and their cat. It is split in halves, each side large enough to accommodate a not-very-large car. It is hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It is a garage.

On average, Pares spends a couple of hours a day here almost every day of the week. To bend the fabric of space, he sits in front of a tray of instruments, twisting knobs and glancing every now and then into a Faraday cage, where a 3.5-pound weight hangs inside an electrically isolated case. Outside the case hangs a strange instrument made up of V-shape panels with fractal arrays on the surfaces. The instrument is the latest version of what Pares believes is the world’s first low-power warp drive motor.

He turns around and points to the back of his garage door, where a red laser — beamed at the weight and reflected back against the door to demonstrate the movement happening in the case — drifts from its original spot. Slowly, in incremental amounts, the weight is drawn toward the V-shape motor.

“You’re not supposed to be able to do this,” Pares says. . . .

* Special Thanks to Scott Ramsey

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Warp Drive Feasible? Relativity Loophole Means 'Star Trek' Device Might Actually Work, Physicists Say | VIDEO

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Warp Drive Spacecraft

By Jillian Scharr
TechNewsDaily
5-14-13

      In the "Star Trek" TV shows and films, the U.S.S. Enterprise's warp engine allows the ship to move faster than light, an ability that is, as Spock would say, "highly illogical."

However, there's a loophole in Einstein's general theory of relativity that could allow a ship to traverse vast distances in less time than it would take light. The trick? It's not the starship that's moving — it's the space around it.

In fact, scientists at NASA are right now working on the first practical field test toward proving the possibility of warp drives and faster-than-light travel. Maybe the warp drive on "Star Trek" is possible after all. . . .
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