NASA Actually Working on Faster-than-Light Warp Drive
http://techland.time.com/2012/09/19/nasa-actually-working-on-faster-than-light-warp-drive/
"Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dustin' crops boy!"
Faster Than Light Starship (no, seriously)
If I remember correctly, current theory is Star Trek, not Star Wars. Warp drive, not hyperdrive.
korjik said:
If I remember correctly, current theory is Star Trek, not Star Wars. Warp drive, not hyperdrive.
Yep, because Star Trek came up with a plausible idea for FTL whereas Hyperdrives (Asimov, Niven, Star Wars, etc…) don't really have a basis to work from.
Warp Drive - Alter space by compressing it in front of the ship (using some form of gravity/graviton generator) then allow it to relax/stretch back out at/behind the ship. The ship isn't actually traveling at relativistic speeds, so doesn't suffer time compression/dilation effects. Or so the Star Trek idea went.
The link actually says warp drive so I think they are rooting around in the right pen.