This week, researchers reported on the implications of a warp drive containment breach in case you’re interested in theoretical space-borne disasters. Scientists in the U.K. report the cardiovascular benefits of COVID-19 vaccination in an extremely thorough analysis of basically the entire adult population of England. And the American Cancer Society is out with numbers related to rising cancer risk in younger generations in the U.S. So it’s not all good news.
researchers reported on the implications of a warp drive containment breach in case you’re interested in theoretical space-borne disasters. Scientists in the U.K. report the cardiovascular benefits of COVID-19 vaccination in an extremely thorough analysis of basically the entire adult population of England. And the American Cancer Society is out with numbers related to rising cancer risk in younger generations in the U.S. So it’s not all good news.
Compressing the spacetime in front of a spacecraft to achieve faster-than-light travel is only possible in theory, the most annoying yet expansive frontier of human endeavor. Theory is all well and good, but it doesn’t bring home the Centauri system bacon. However, the theory behind warp drives is robust enough that mathematicians and theoretical physicists can explore the implications without actually violating causality or messing with exotic negative-energy matter.
A multi-institutional collaborative in Europe and the U.K. presented new research this week exploring the consequences of a warp drive containment failure using mathematical simulations. According to the study, such a containment breach would result in a short, high-frequency burst of gravitational waves.
