The Biggest Obstacle for Development of Working Warp Drive

Pym Bilek: In a gas giant like Jupiter the hydrogen, which we think of as a gas, turns into a metal. And so you have a core of metal, of conducting stuff that can swirl just like the core of metal in the Earth. That's how you get a magnetic field. He says Charles has already built a warp engine in his basement. But he won't say when it will be released because "that's classified information"

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