A warp drive would work by “warping” spacetime around any spaceship, which physicist Miguel Alcubierre
showed was theoretically possible in 1994, albeit well beyond the
current technical capabilities of humanity. However, any such Alcubierre
drive was assumed to require more energy — equivalent to the
mass-energy of the whole planet of Jupiter – than could ever possibly be
supplied, rendering it impossible to build.
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