However, until Lentz’s research it was thought that the only way to produce a warp drive was by generating vast amounts of negative energy – perhaps by using some sort of undiscovered exotic matter or by the manipulation of dark energy.
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The idea of creating warp bubbles is not new, it was first proposed in 1994 by the Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre who dubbed them “warp drives” in homage to the sci-fi series Star Trek. Therefore, a spacecraft contained in a hyperfast bubble could arrive at its destination faster than light would in normal space without breaking any physical laws, even Einstein’s cosmic speed limit. Unlike objects within space–time, space–time itself can bend, expand or warp at any speed.
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This soliton would act like a “warp bubble’”, contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind. Lentz proposes that conventional energy sources could be capable of arranging the structure of space–time in the form of a soliton – a robust singular wave. The catch is that his scheme requires vast amounts of energy and it may not be able to propel a spacecraft. However, new research by Erik Lentz at the University of Göttingen suggests a way beyond this limit.
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