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Revision as of 00:46, 8 September 2005 by ErkDemon (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)A warp drive is a hypothetical device that might allow the manipulation of gravitational fields and/or the inertia of a body to produce a propulsive effect.
The hoped-for advantages of this approach are
- avoiding the need to carry large amounts of sacrificial propellant (in addition to the payload and a power source)
- the posibility of achieving arbitrarily high accelerations without subjecting a payload to high gee forces,
- the possibility of achieving speeds in excess of the background speed of light, legally, and
- the possibility of avoiding massive energy requirements for interstellar travel.
Not all approaches meet all these criteria, and much of the research on this subject is highly speculative.
Strong claims made either for the possibility or for the impossibility of a practical warp drive should both be treated with extreme caution.
Pages in category "Warp drive theory"
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