Warp Drive

[ysabetwordsmith]

Here is an article on recent thoughts about warp drives.  They're not impossible.  Humans just don't know how to make them yet.

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[sixbeforelunch]

I've always thought the idea that we're trapped by the speed of light to be a little sad, so I love seeing realistic possibilities for finding a way around it.

Well ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I find the limitation to be implausible for the simple reason that imagining limitations and then finding ways around them is the history of human technology.

People started out making sharp edges by breaking away parts of a rock they didn't want and using the sharpened core. Then someone figured out you could get a lot more edges from one rock by using the flakes which was the opposite approach.

People used to believe that things like electricity and sound were fleeting, impossible to catch. They had proofs for why heavier-than-air flight and faster-than-sound flight were impossible. Then someone else figured out how to do those things.

Humanity hasn't even discovered how all the forces unite, only electricity and magnetism, but they want to call FTL impossible. They don't know enough to know what's possible or not.