NASA revealed the latest design of the Warp Drive spacecraft

In 2012, Harold White, a physicist working at NASA, once revealed information about the development of a spaceship using the Warp Drive engine moving by distorting space to achieve fast speeds. more than light . And recently, White's team of researchers and designers have officially published specific images of the spaceship that he says could fly to Alpha Centauri systems 4.3 years from Earth. light in just 2 weeks.

According to White's idea, the idea of ​​a spaceship is based on the theory of space-time deformation proposed by the physicist Miguel Alcubierre in 1994. According to this theory, a device called Warp Drive is tasked. creating a magnetic field with negative energy to make time - space in both the front and rear of the ship is compressed or stretched, thereby creating a foam. And the spaceship will ride on a foam like surf in the universe. This process simulates the evolution of the Big Bang that causes matter to move at a faster rate than light.

American theoretical physicist Michio Kaku calls Alcubierre's model "passport to space". If successful, Warp Drive can bend time and space, opening up the prospect of making interstellar trips to help people explore the universe more easily. According to White's estimate, the ship can fly to Alpha Centauri binary stars within 2 weeks, although it is more than 4.3 light-years from Earth. Basically, even though the ship did not use jet engines, the astronaut inside the ship still sensed the movement even though no acceleration was created.

White said: "Remember, no local object can exceed the speed of light, but space can be stretched or shrunk at any speed. However, no - time time is really "hard", so to create enough elasticity to move our ship to interplanetary, a huge energy source is needed, however, based on my analysis throughout 18 Last month, the key to the problem lies in the geometry of the Warp Drive system ".

He revealed, "I suddenly realized that if you create a ring shaped like a donut that surrounds the ship's body, the longitudinal movement of the ring will produce the amount of negative energy needed to form. foam. The design can reduce the amount of energy needed and the idea is closer to reality . " According to White, the amount of energy his ship uses is even less than that of the Voyager 1 spacecraft.

In one experiment, White's team created a ring model with laboratory capacitors and supplied voltages up to tens of thousands of volts. What the team observed is the immense energy potential and the blue movement similar to the light.

Until now, what NASA researchers have achieved are just theoretical experiments. Physicists still need to do more research so that hypotheses can be closer to reality. However, it is hoped that the research will soon achieve success in reality and the dream of exploring human space will be completely feasible in the future.

White physicist is presenting the new design of the Wrap Drive spacecraft (From 41:48).