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Is NASA Moving Toward a Hyperspace Drive?
NASA has successfully tested electromagnetic propulsion in a hard vacuum for the first time.
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DavidDvorkin
(19,485 posts)Even if this turns out to work, it's still limited by the speed of light.
Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)Hyperspace is hypotheticalspace. There's no evidence for it.
struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)And if it works, it'll rewrite laws of physics.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)If it works, it will be a small, cheap, extremely-low-performance engine.
The NASA is working on lab-desk models of an Alcubierre-Drive. Problem: To generate the warp-bubble it needs negative matter. Which doesn't exist to anybody's knowledge. Right now the NASA tries normal matter. Last thing I heard was that they are relocationg the experiment because earthquake-vibrations are messing with their measurements of gravitational waves.
(And even if they had negative matter and were capable of building it: In its current design the Alcubierre-Drive doubles as an interstellar doomsday-device. Not kidding.)