Warp Drives May Come With a Killer Downside
Jason Major, Universe Today:
While many factors involving FTL travel are purely theoretical â and may remain in the realm of imagination for a very long time, if not ever â there are some concepts that play well with currently-accepted physics. The Alcubierre warp drive is one of those concepts.
Proposed by Mexican theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre in 1994, the drive would propel a ship at superluminal speeds by creating a bubble of negative energy around it, expanding space (and time) behind the ship while compressing space in front of it. In much the same way that a surfer rides a wave, the bubble of space containing the ship and its passengers would be pushed at velocities not limited to the speed of light toward a destination.
Of course, when the ship reaches its destination it has to stop. And that’s when all hell breaks loose.
Click the link to read the horrifying consequences.