Dr. White believes that advances he and others have made render warp speed less implausible. Beyond the security gate at the Johnson Space Center’s 1960s-era campus here, inside a two-story... Read more
The Alcubierre warp drive concept is capable of moving a spaceship, within an enclosed bubble of space-time At the start of 2013, a research paper was submitted to the Astrophysical Journal ... Read more
“The bottom line is, nature can do it,” said White. “So the salient question is, ‘can we?'” In the “Star Trek” TV shows and films, the U.S.S.... Read more
University of Adelaide applied mathematicians have extended Einstein’s theory of special relativity to work beyond the speed of light. Einstein’s theory holds that nothing could... Read more
The first steps towards interstellar travel have been taken, but the stars are very far away. Voyager 1 is about 17 light-hours distant from Earth and is traveling with a velocity of 0.006 p... Read more
Now, relativity is looking even shakier than before IN SEPTEMBER a furore erupted among physicists after it emerged that neutrinos—diaphanous particles which pervade the universe but... Read more
If MINOS were to confirm OPERA‘s find, the consequences would be enormous. Neutrino results challenge a cornerstone of Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity, which itsel... Read more
