Is It a Warp Engine or a Wormhole?

The best earth technology would be millions of dollars and thousands of years. The way they depict it on the show t looks like a hole, right? Basically, like a hole in spaces, like a window, kind of. But it's interesting, sonly, the alien robots know how to operate these alien engines,. And so it requires some intense calculations or something in order to build these worm holes. Which i thought was really interesting, and you'll hear later, i asked carry about that, like, what is the science of these engines?