Warp Drive on Superphysics https://www.superphysics.org/research/sciences/warp-drive/ Recent content in Warp Drive on Superphysics Hugo en Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 The warp drive: hyper-fast travel within general relativity https://www.superphysics.org/research/sciences/warp-drive/part-1/ Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.superphysics.org/research/sciences/warp-drive/part-1/ <p>Miguel Alcubierre</p> <h2 id="abstract">Abstract</h2> <p>Using general relativity without wormholes, we can modify spacetime to allow a spaceship to travel faster than light through a purely local expansion of spacetime behind the spaceship and an opposite contraction in front of it.</p>