Warp drive experiment. Illustration of an interferometer apparatus being used to detect the production of a warp drive field. This is a theoretical co
Warp drive experiment. Illustration of an interferometer apparatus being used to detect the production of a warp drive field. This is a theoretical concept known as the Alcubierre metric, where a spacecraft travels faster than light by contracting the space in front of it and expanding the space behind it. Here, a laser is used with mirrors and beam splitters and reflectors to generate an interference signal at a detector (right). At upper right, a toroid capacitor ring is used to generate the warp field. If a warp field is successfully produced, this will show in the signal received at the detector. This experiment was proposed in 2006 by NASA engineer and physicist Harold G. White, and is known as the White-Juday warp-field interferometer.
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