Unfortunately, it does not yet have a cool-sounding name to help champion and convey its essence. It is so ubiquitous in science fiction that many people do not even realize it’s there and the extent of its implications.

This would be a profound breakthrough! This hugely important feature often gets neglected in the shadow of the difficulty of achieving FTL. This means that the ship is providing a gravitational field for the comfort and health of the crew - in the middle of deep space where such fields do not exist. Picture your favorite fictional starship, where the crew is walking around normally, as if in a studio back on Earth. The last update I saw was ' Status of nonlocal quantum communication test' presented by Cramer and his colleagues.Ĭontrol of gravitational and inertial forces Cramer's attempt to test the possible time-paradox implications of such phenomena still remains incomplete. A number of phenomena, such as tunneling and entanglement, fall under the header of 'quantum non-locality' - a term I learned from physicist John Cramer at the University of Washington, Seattle. Quantum physics also presents tempting phenomena relevant to FTL questions. Although Eric Davis is tracking this for the Tau Zero Foundation, we do not yet know enough to render judgment. Unfortunately, I do not have an article to cite about that hypothesis or the methods being used, since such information has not (yet?) been published. That work is an attempt to measure space-time distortions caused by the presence of negative energy. Recent news regarding the work of Harold 'Sonny' White at NASA's Johnson Space Center has been exaggerated. For more, see Eric Davis' “ Faster-Than-Light Space Warps, Status and Next Steps” paper from last year's 48th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit. The ongoing progress mostly focuses on the energy conditions - how to lower the energy required and how to create and apply the required 'negative energy.' One conclusion we have already found is that wormholes are more energy-efficient at creating FTL than warp drive. These theories are based on Einstein's theory of general relativity.

Wormholes and warp drives- approaches to FTL flight - are theoretically possible, but the theory has not yet advanced to guide their construction.

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