A new online toolkit will help physicists and engineers imagine how humanity can realize its dreams of faster-than-light travel in space.
This set of tools was created by an international team of scientists from the American company Applied Physics, which also aims to provide a reality check for warp drive concepts.
Our Milky Way Galaxy is 100,000 light-years in diameter and contains 100 to 400 billion stars, as well as trillions of planets. This means that even at the speed of light (300,000 km/s) it takes 100,000 years to cross the Milky Way. But the space engines we have make it possible to even leave the solar system in about half a human lifetime.
That is, if humanity is to become a space-faring species, it is necessary to create something more advanced than chemical space engines and even nuclear engines. Such devices are warp engines, which have long been used in their stories by authors of science fiction books and films.
Warp drives provide faster-than-light flight by placing the spacecraft in a warp bubble, an area of curved space. The spaceship is stationary relative to the warp bubble, but the warp bubble itself is moving. This way you can cross the Milky Way in just a few hours.
Scientists have long thought about the possibility of creating such a technology that contradicts modern physics, and a new online toolkit will help scientists get closer to making the idea of warp drive a reality.
A group of scientists and engineers from Applied Physics have announced that they have created an online toolkit for analyzing warp drive spacetime called Warp Factory.
It is worth saying that last year a number of studies showed that the creation of warp engines, based on the idea of warp bubbles that bend space-time, is theoretically possible. Warp Factory provides an online platform for scientists to test warp drive ideas.
Physicists can now create and improve a variety of warp drive designs with just a few clicks, said Gianni Martire, CEO of Applied Physics. The new virtual research facility will enable testing and evaluation of various warp drive designs. Therefore, fiction is gradually coming closer to reality.
“Physicists can now generate and refine a range of warp drive designs with just a few clicks, allowing us to advance science at warp speed,” said Gianni Martire, CEO of Applied Physics. a press statement.
“Warp Factory acts as a virtual wind tunnel, allowing us to test and evaluate different warp designs. Science fiction is now getting closer to scientific fact.”
The company is even setting aside $500,000 in potential grants for warp propulsion theorists. But the authors of the idea say that the main condition for receiving a grant is that physicists must propose the most realistic project close to the theory of relativity.
Scientists believe that many obstacles must be overcome before a truly working warp drive can be created, but this technology should be taken with the utmost seriousness. If people want to fly to other stars in a short time, they cannot do without this technology, which changes space-time.
