How long until humans travel through space from one place to another in a few minutes? No astrophysicist has that answer yet, however they are getting closer and closer to be able to detect ships in deep spacewhich use as propulsion the “warp drive” or warp engines, just as the Millennium Falcon does in Star Wars or the Enterprise does in Star Trek.
Although warp drives have their origins in one of the most popular franchises in history, they are created on a scientific basis, which would allow this type of ship to travel through space at a higher speed of light. , but without breaking the laws established by Albert Einstein .
In series or movies, you can see how these ships can travel from one planetary system to another in very short times, although the technology does not yet exist – as yet – to be able to create this type of engines, there could be a theory that detect the gravitational waves that these “warp drives” generate.
That is why physicists Katy Clough, Tim Dietrich and Sebastian Khanfrom different institutions in the United Kingdom and Germany, published a theory called ““What no one has seen before: gravitational waveforms from warp drive collapse.” Already in 1994, Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre described how “warp drives” could theoretically work. While no object can travel faster than the speed of light, warp drives could offer a solution of sorts, since warping space-time would not break a spaceship.
“Alcubierre first proposed a space-time metric that allowed for faster-than-light travel. While there are numerous practical barriers to its implementation in real life, including the negative energy requirement, its evolution can be computationally simulated in the time given an equation of state that describes matter” expressed the physicists in their work. Therefore, the research focused on calculating the emitted gravitational wave signal and tracking the energy flows of the fluid.
