How NASA might build its very first warp drive
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In terms of the engine's mechanics, a spheroid object would be placed between two regions of space-time (one expanding and one contracting). A "warp bubble" would then be generated that moves space-time around the object, effectively repositioning it — the end result being faster-than-light travel without the spheroid (or spacecraft) having to move with respect to its local frame of reference.
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More at Time magazine. Geordi Laforge DEAL WITH IT time!!!
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11:09 PM Nov 26 2012