Intergalactic travel, Warp drive in reality

Greetings! Mankind has different ways of development: creation of artificial intelligence, robotization, cybernation, biogenetics and etc., and today I’d like to talk about one of those evolutionary paths, which is exciting and mysterious.

Due to an eminent scientist Albert Einstein this world knows that our Universe has four dimensions: length, height, width and time. Three-dimensional space and one-dimensional time are inseparably linked, not vice versa, as another outstanding mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton supposed at the time. Also, according to Einstein’s theory, nothing in the Universe can move faster than light. If that’s the case, what should mankind seeking to conquer space do then? In 1994 a Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed the method of changing the geometry of space by expanding the fabric of space behind the spacecraft and contracting the space in front. Doesn’t it remind you anything? Right, this is exactly the way the warp drive from Star Trek works. The most interesting thing is that the idea of the method came to Alcubierre after he’d watched the above-mentioned TV series.

Unfortunately, the idea of Alcubierre’s “Warp Bubble” is too far from practical implementation. According to preliminary estimates of theoretical physicists, formation and movement of such Bubble will require mass exceeding the mass of the Universe. The necessary amount of energy is also likely to be unsustainably large. A lot of researches the aim of which was also the study and use of spatial anomalies have been conducted in NASA laboratories. In one of the series of experiments the scientists were able to observe spatial perturbation. A year later Russian physicist Serguei Krasnikov proposed conception of the Krasnikov Tube, that reminds in itself a worm hole. Such results and ideas show that science is getting closer to solve the riddle.

Yet it is still unclear how those space-time distortions would impact on the subjective perception of time. Would it flow as usual or not? The problem of interstellar travelling is considered in a sci-fi novel “The Forever War” by Joe Haldeman. The subjective time of the lead character flew as usual for him, but each time his spaceship covered a huge distance, a minute lived by the protagonist was equal to decades and centuries on the Earth. For now scientists don’t know how to make spacetime curvature, but it’s worth noting that preconditions are already formed up. In 2010 a NASA engineer Harold White created a device called The White–Juday warp-field interferometer. The NASA research team has postulated that the device can measure spacetime curvatures. Experiments are continuing, and hopefully, someday scientists will help a long-held dream of mankind - to conquer space, come true. Just imagine, what may be there in deep space… it doesn’t seem to be like something real, but mystic. Research in this area is an important step in the development of civilization that will help humanity to go to the next level, and I believe such studies should be paramount in all countries.

Science unites and gives us new spaces for life. I hope the scientific tendency will hit stride again, get deservedly recognized and we will put an end to this chaos of consuming. Thank you for attention.