It’s the subsequent generation — of science.
A latest study appears to have legitimized the favored science fiction belief that “warp drives” — known by nerds as super-powered space engines from “Star Trek” — may very well exist and be a method to discover aliens.
The research team, plucked from prestigious institutions like Oxford and the Max Planck Institute, hones in on the legitimacy of “faster-than-light travel” and its ties to “application to the seek for extraterrestrial life.”
In other words, traces of warp travel might be indicators of non-human travel throughout the universe.
And there’s potential for plausibility of their existence, the team stated.
“Despite originating in science fiction, warp drives have a concrete description typically relativity,” they wrote in the paper’s abstract.
“Our work highlights the importance of exploring strange latest spacetimes, to (boldly) simulate what nobody has seen before.”
This enterprise of thinkers is constructing on an idea from theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre.
Within the Nineteen Nineties, the Mexico City-based expert conceptualized the potential for a spaceship to zoom past light speed due to warp abilities, together with the existence of wormholes in space.
“It is feasible to change a spacetime in a way that permits a spaceship to travel with an arbitrarily large speed,” Alcubierre wrote on the time.