
Did NASA accidentally invent a warp drive?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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NASA May Have Intentionally Built a Warp Drive
A warp drive is an idea where you have something aboard your spaceship that lets you cut through space or go faster than the speed of light. It's not like we have plans for a warp drive right now, but we have sort of a direction that theoretical physics suggests it might be possible. We're used to relativity telling us that you can't move through space faster than light, and that doesn't change. But relativity also tells us that space isn't just flat, that it can do weird things,. That's really what we mean by changing the relative distances between points in space.
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