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Warp drive, Dyson Spheres, the vanishing of Vulcan and the search for the ninth planet

WARPED In the 1990s physicist Miguel Alcubierre worked out that a Star Trek style warp drive that would allow a craft to travel at faster than light speeds was theoretically possible. To do this, it would need to make the fabric of space expand in front of it and contract behind it, creating a “warp bubble”. This would use a possible, but as yet undiscovered, form of matter with “negative energy”, and even then, there would still be problems keeping a warp bubble stable. Katy Clough and colleagues at Queen Mary University of London considered the implications of Alcubierre warp drives and found that a warp-powered starship that was up to speed and travelling at a constant velocity wouldn’t create any gravitational waves, but it would if accelerating or experiencing…

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