The dangers of warp travel

Even if we manage to build a warp drive, would we dare turn it on?

RADIATION Researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia have calculated that particles and radiation could be caught up in the bow wave of a warp bubble as it travels. When the ship decelerates, the accumulated particles would be released in a devastating burst that would destroy anything in the path of the ship. COLLISIONS The physics of warp bubbles aren’t well enough understood yet to know exactly what would happen if your course takes you through the path of a planet or star. Would it be brushed aside? Would you pass harmlessly though it? Or would you be instantly vaporised? If you fly inside the event horizon of a black hole, could you escape? NEGATIVE ENERGY What are the properties of negative energy? How would you store it? What…

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