| Warp Speed May be Possible with Tremendous Amount of Energy
By Lu Xiao via Epoch Times Headline Image: NASA People have long dreamed of traveling to other stars and planets and wandering in the universe with a starship. However, such things only exist in sci-fi, because even the closest star to the sun, Proxima Centauri, is more than four light-years away. This means that even if you could travel at the speed of light, it would take you more than four years to reach the closest star. To allow the Star Trek characters to quickly reach any part of the universe, Star Trek introduced the concept of "warp speed," which lets the starships travel faster than light. However, according to Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, it is impossible to go faster than light. Then is it never possible to use warp drive? Scientists seem to have found a viable solution, at least theoretically. In a new study, physicist Erik Lentz from Göttingen University in Germany proposed a model for faster-than-light travel, thanks to what he calls a new class of
