The Warp Drive Could Become Science Fact

Okay, this is a bit esoteric, but stuff like this interests me. How about a Warp Drive that propels a ship at 10 times the speed of light? A warp drive to achieve faster-than-light travel -- a concept popularized in television's Star Trek -- may not be as unrealistic as once thought, scientists say.

http://news.discovery.com/space/warp-drive-possible-nasa-tests-100yss-120917.html



An excerpt: An Alcubierre warp drive would involve a football-shape spacecraft attached to a large ring encircling it. This ring, potentially made of exotic matter, would cause space-time to warp around the starship, creating a region of contracted space in front of it and expanded space behind.

Meanwhile, the starship itself would stay inside a bubble of flat space-time that wasn't being warped at all.

"Everything within space is restricted by the speed of light," explained Richard Obousy, president of Icarus Interstellar, a non-profit group of scientists and engineers devoted to pursuing interstellar spaceflight. "But the really cool thing is space-time, the fabric of space, is not limited by the speed of light."

Interesting. For this to work, the exotic matter would have to have a negative energy density. Wondering how the conundrum of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle would play out, be thrown out, or explained with such a concept