All science fiction fans would have heard of the warp drive. Simply put, it’ a mechanism to travel faster than light by manipulating the space time fabric. Being a hardcore SF fan, I have many-a-time fantasized about being a spaceman.
Surprisingly, there is a lot of material on the net regarding this. PopSci.com's article recently brought up my interest, and then it went on.
PopSci
The big ol bad Daddy of all space agencies also has something to say on this.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/research/warp/warp.html
This is not only pretty comprehensive, but makes for very exhausting reading. I still have to get through most of it.
Wikipedia on the other hand, relates warp drives to Star trek(. It even has the speeds for each level of warp drive!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warp_drive
Ah well, I think we will have to wait some time for this …
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