The canonical form of the Alcubierre warp drive metric is considered to gain insight into the mathematical mechanism triggering the effect. A parallel with the Chung-Freese spacetime metric is drawn ...

Warp drive has long lived in the realm of starships and scriptwriters, but the equations behind it are starting to look less like fantasy and more like a difficult engineering problem. The latest ...

It’s always a welcome thing to learn that ideas that are commonplace in science fiction have a basis in science fact. Cryogenic freezers, laser guns, robots, silicate implants… and let’s not forget ...

This paper will begin with a short review of the Alcubierre warp drive metric and describes how the phenomenon might work based on the original paper. The canonical form of the metric was developed ...

Star Trek Season 4 Episode 6 turns the Alcubierre warp drive metric into a structural argument -- the 48-minute countdown is not a dramatic device but a physics calculation, making this the first Trek ...

On the Starship Enterprise, Captain Kirk used a warp engine to move briskly about the place, but there is a way the warp drive could move from science fiction to reality. Harold White, from NASA’s ...

You probably don’t know what the Alcubierre warp drive is, but that’s cool. This is called the Learnin’ Corner for a reason—to pick up where our poorly funded public education system petered to a halt ...