New warp drive research dashes faster than light travel dreams – but reveals stranger possibilities
- Written by Sam Baron, Associate professor, Australian Catholic University
shutterstockIn 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster than light travel: the warp drive, a hypothetical way to skirt around the universe’s ultimate speed limit by bending the fabric of reality.
It was an intriguing idea – even NASA has been researching it at the Eagleworks laboratory...





