He goes carelessly, in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation. When Captain Jean-Luc Picard gives the command to the viewer it is very familiar”betrothed!The surrounding stars extend into the Enterprise’s spaceships and lines at warp speeds into the depths of the universe, faster than light.

The warp drive is a charming futuristic technology from Star TrekUniverse, which since its first episode in 1966 includes ten – soon eleven – television series and thirteen feature films. And in all those series and movies, characters who carry spaceships explore the universe, travel from planet to planet and communicate with a crew of aliens.

‘When I was a kid I was huge Star Treksays physicist Eric Lintz, of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the US. There he researches esoteric physics phenomena like dark matter and quantum information, but type his name into Google and the first research proposal related to the research he does in his spare time: the convolution engine.

As I get older, I realize that not everything matters Star Trek It will really exist,” he says. “But the torsion engine will not leave me.” Shortly after the first corona closed, it was delivered commercial publication in Which will be the starting signal for a fantastic acceleration in our knowledge of this imaginative futuristic engine.

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