Timeline for How is the FTL drive supposed to work in Star Trek?
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| S Oct 17, 2015 at 17:24 | history | suggested | maguirenumber6 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Brief explanation of Alcubierre drive attempted
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| Oct 17, 2015 at 17:08 | comment | added | maguirenumber6 | Edited to attempt to provide an explanation as to the proposed way an Alcubierre drive would work | |
| Oct 17, 2015 at 17:07 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Aug 17, 2015 at 18:06 | comment | added | KRyan | @RobertF I was disappointed to learn that the NASA experiments in this area have become regarded as somewhere between a joke and a hoax by the wider physics community. | |
| Jun 4, 2014 at 21:42 | comment | added | user1027 | This answer would be better if it explained what an Alcubierre drive is. It's currently little more than a link-only answer. | |
| Sep 30, 2013 at 16:26 | comment | added | RobertF | NASA researcher Harold White has proposed that changing the geometry of the exotic matter-energy distribution in the Alcubierre drive from a bubble to a doughnut, and then oscillating the energy intensity, brings the mass-energy requirement down to 700 kg or less. | |
| Mar 5, 2012 at 13:13 | comment | added | Samuel Herzog | great info, +1 from me :) | |
| Nov 30, 2011 at 21:24 | comment | added | OghmaOsiris | But his theory holds. It will take a few stars worth of energy to move the mass of a starship at FTL, but the math is valid, lol | |
| Nov 30, 2011 at 20:35 | comment | added | KeithS | Except that Miguel Alcubierre proposed the system in 1994, as a real-science explanation for Star Trek warp drives. It's a retronym - warp drive existed in sci-fi before real science could explain it feasibly. | |
| Jul 13, 2011 at 4:39 | history | answered | OghmaOsiris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |