Star Trek fans should (cautiously) rejoice because there’s a man out there who plans to bend space and time straight from his garage in Omaha. The man is called David Pares and although he might be a bit of a dreamer, he’s also a scientist and a professor at the University of Nebraska. Pares believes that bending spacetime is not only possible, but that it already occurs naturally in infamous places such as the Bermuda Triangle and wants to harness that knowledge in order to construct a warp drive.
Trekkies are not the only people who dream about travelling from one star to the next inside a ship that’s propelled by a real warp drive. Many scientists (including some from NASA) have also been seriously thinking about this possibility and actually concluded that it might be the only way to efficiently achieve interstellar space travel. As you already know, the universe is an unfathomably huge place, with the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, located at about 4.24 light-years away from our Sun. Travelling to Proxima Centauri would theoretically take about 4.24 years if a ship would somehow be able to travel at the speed of light or faster. Unfortunately, Einstein’s theory of relativity indicates that such a thing is not possible, at least not by conventional means.
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