New Warp Drive Research Dashes Faster-Than-Light Travel Dreams--but Reveals Stranger Possibilities

In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster-than-light travel: the warp drive, a hypothetical way to skirt around the universe's ultimate speed limit by bending the fabric of reality. It was an intriguing idea--even NASA has been researching it at the Eagleworks laboratory--but Alcubierre's proposal contained problems that seemed insurmountable. […]