Star treks enterprise turns 50 and still no sign of a. Maybe someone who understands this can write an answer to my questions. I would say in 30 years we will have the means to generate enough negative energy to be able to shape it into a small worm hole in the laboratory where particles of matter are shown to pass. The agency is deep in the process of performing trade studies to define the next chapter of human space exploration. They were both on first dated 11262012 and the second 010420 titled how nasa might build its very first warpdrive and woodward effect allows for endless supplies of starship fuel. Warp drives might be more realistic than thought wired. There has been many contributions to this present day period. A few years ago, nasa physicist harold white announced his plans to build a warpdrive spacecraft that could zip through space at. Now, nasa has released designs for a fasterthanlight ship that uses the hypothetical tech. Warp drives, negative mass, exotic matter these all sound like the stuff of science fiction.
No further tweaks, configuration, or maintenance is required from your side. Dr whites presentation of the microwarp experiment and qvpt performance information. This is the backdrop from the nasa bpp program and its end on up to the present under which harold white and others manged to get a relook at the subject of warp drive. The alcubierre warp drive in higher dimensional spacetime h. I cut this out of the icarus interstellar video of day 3 of the 20 starship conference because it was. Davis2 15231 pilgrim oaks lane, league city, tx 77573, usa 2inst. Harold white, from nasas johnson space centre, revealed the. See more ideas about warp drive, nasa and space travel. The work and attempts and experiments in 2014 had a gap between sensors and laser and magnet generation of effects at about 1 million times.
Harold whites analysis applied to the natario warp drive. Is harold whites eagleworks advanced propulsionwarp drive research. If such a warp is detected, it is hoped that more research into creating an alcubierre warp bubble will be inspired. Nasa is developing warp drive tech inspired by star trek tom cheredar september 17, 2012 1. Sonny white being kind of cautious and low key about this. One of the most anticipated presentations was titled warp field.
A research team led by harold sonny white in collaboration with dr. A nineyear agency veteran, white runs the advanced propulsion program at johnson space center jsc. In physics, it is what is known as the alcubierre warp drive. The alcubierre warp drive is a very interesting arena for thought experiments to try to better understand general relativity and quantum field theory.
Dr harold sonny white is working on the warp drive program at nasas johnson space centre, and came up with this concept with 3d artist mark rademaker, jesus diaz reports for sploid. In the star trek tv series and movies the starship uss enterprise could travel faster than light by engaging its. Second of two short videos as part of presentation to dept. Faster than light warp drive is it possible to travel faster than light. White, a physicist and advanced propulsion engineer at nasa and other nasa engineers are trying to determine whether fasterthanlight travel warp drive might someday be possible.
Put plainly, warp drive would permit fasterthanlight travel. Harold white, has modified a previously unsuccessful ftl model called the. Wormholes, warp drives and other ways to beat the cosmic speed limit. Picture courtesy of nasa, govcentersglenntechnologywarpwarpstat. In contrast to some other fictitious fasterthanlight technologies such as a jump drive, the warp.
Another journalist says that although a practical warp drive is a long way off. Warpdisk combines disk defrag and readahead caching to make your computer run fast and boot fast. There is some excitement in the net about some news of harold whites experiment at nasa. Few people know this but nasa actually has a warp drive program underway at.
On paper, it is a highly speculative, but possibly valid, solution of the einstein. In harold whites possible alcubierre warp drive, the ring around the starship creates a warp bubble that allows for fasterthanlight travel inside it. David pares isnt content to just sit around and wait for nasa to create a realworld version of the warp drive theorized by nasa physicist harold white. However, just as happens with wormholes, exotic matter will be needed in order to generate a distortion of spacetime like the one discussed here. Nasas warp drive engine works and it could take humans. How to travel faster than light november 2014 bbc focus pdf. If you would like to know more about the theories of interstellar flight, you should visit the tau zero foundation. A ringshaped warp drive device could transport a footballshape starship center to effective speeds faster than light. Nasa engineer harold sonny white runs the eagleworks lab at. Harold white s work on warp bubble configuration and bubble thickness brought the theoretical power requirements to 500 kilograms the mass of voyager 1. The results of a nasa test into warp drive technology have been leaked onto the internet and apparently show it is possible. Man building warp drive in his garage the mary sue. Harold whites work on warp bubble configuration and bubble thickness.
Via physics and astronomy zone and the daily galaxy nasa is currently working on the first practical field test toward the possibility of faster than light travel. Nasa unveils incredible design for warp drive spacecraft youtube duration. From impractical, to worthy of further investigation. This is a wellfrequented site with people at nasa posting on it and regularly updating about the work that they are carrying out. The canonical form of the alcubierre warp drive metric is considered to gain insight. A warp drive would manipulate spacetime itself to move a starship, taking advantage of a loophole in the laws of physics that prevent anything from moving faster than light. There are many absurd theories that have become reality over the years of scientific research. Nasa physicist harold white has given a new presentation and updated version of a theoretical version of a future warp drive vessel. The analysis of harold white applied to the natario warp. The painful truth about nasas warp drive spaceship from a. An explanation of the alcubierrewhite warp drive youtube. Nasa unveils its futuristic warp drive starship called. There have been two stories of warp drive and fuel needed for interstellar flight.
They apply harold whites analysis to the natario warp drive and arrive at similar conclusions. This impressive piece of software really makes a difference. The alcubierre warp drive in higher dimensional spacetime. As dr white points out all we need is existence proof, and then who knows how long when the technology becomes available to develop a warp drive prototype. Harold sonny white nasa johnson space center 2101 nasa parkway, mc ep4 houston, tx 77058 email. Warp drive could allow us to travel 10 times faster than light. Marc millis, a former nasa glenn physicist, founded the organization to. When first proposed by mexican physicist miguel alcubierre in 1994, the warp drive would have required huge, unreasonable amounts of. According to alcubierres theory, one could create a warp bubble by applying negative energy, or energy created in a vacuum. Designing a warp drive space ship for nasa for some years now, nasas harold white has been working on the possibility of a. But for the near future, warp drive remains a dream. One good piece of news is that early fears that a hypothetical warp drive could be a star systemannihilating event have been disproven by a better evaluation of the mathematics.
The alcubierre drive, alcubierre warp drive, or alcubierre metric referring to metric tensor is a speculative idea based on a solution of einsteins field equations in general relativity as proposed by theoretical physicist miguel alcubierre, by which a spacecraft could achieve apparent fasterthanlight travel if a configurable energydensity field lower than that of vacuum that is. White, a nasa physicist, is working on the concept of warp drive, like on star trek. Following this, white and his colleagues have set up a mini version of the warp drive in their laboratory. He gave the recent keynote presentation at monte jade event with a talk entitled the future for you. Harold sonny white 09022011 shell thickness parameter shell size parameter apparent speed. Anyhow, we hope that harold white will fill all the details at 20 starship congress that he will attend giving a talk see here. Space contraction in front of ship space expansion behind ship location of ship proper dr.
One day, such craft might spur exploration of the solar system. A simple explanation of how a real warp drive could work asteronx in this video we discuss how warp drives work. Advanced propulsion human space exploration is currently still in leo. In harold white s possible alcubierre warp drive, the ring around the starship creates a warp bubble that allows for fasterthanlight travel inside it. The whitejuday warpfield interferometer is an experiment designed to detect a microscopic instance of a warping of spacetime. Traveling faster than light has always been attributed to science fiction, but that all changed when harold white and his team at nasa started to work on and tweak the alcubierre drive. There findings change the plausibility of a warp drive. A warp drive is a theoretical superluminal spacecraft propulsion system in many science fiction works, most notably star trek and much of isaac asimovs work. Sadly i know too little about this to understand it. But mit explains how our strangerthanfiction universe could be explained by actual physics. Encore of warp field mechanics 102, technical presentation. Sonny white born october 8, 1965 is a mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer, and applied physicist who is the advanced propulsion team lead for the nasa engineering directorate and is known for proposing new alcubierre drive concepts and promoting advanced propulsion projects, under development at the nasa johnson space center, including the first. But now scientists believe that those requirements might not be so vast, making warp travel a tangible possibility. A spacecraft equipped with a warp drive may travel at speeds greater than that of light by many orders of magnitude.
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