Sometimes people ask if warp drive is possible? The same way people asked a couple of years ago if the hypersonic flight is possible? Today we know that hypersonic flight is possible. All new inventions require budgets. And one of the most remarkable things is that when somebody researches things like hypersonic flight or some new ideas those things are always very expensive.
Somebody always repeats mantras like "old reserve better". And then some other country takes the hypersonic weapons in production. That makes that there is a lot of hurry with those systems that are the most capable in the world.
Without dreams is no inventions. All inventions in history required research and development. So without intensive and sharp research, we cannot make inventions. And here I must say that without research we should not crush any invention. The thing is this. When we are talking about the freedom of space and interstellar travel. We forget that a short time ago those things were just "impossible things".
There is no way to cross the speed of light says some people without telling why it's impossible. Did anyone even ask why nothing can reach the speed of light or crossing the speed of light is impossible? History is full of inventions that should not work or punch as impossible.
Things like radios, heavier than air flight (aircraft), and moon travel claimed to be impossible. Also, atom bombs were claimed impossible. But the world is full of people who want to work hard- And technical problems were solved, and those inventions came true.
So when we are thinking about things like "Alcubierre drive" there are lots of technical problems, what that system faces before it can start. But hard-working researchers and engineers can solve all technical problems faster than light travel.
When we are talking about the speed of light that thing means that the speed of light is a relative quantity. The thing that limits the speed is the crossing of quantum fields. If we can find the area where the wave motion travels only in one direction.
We could reach that speed very easily. But traveling faster than wave motion is hard. Near black holes is an area where massive gravitation pulls the wave motion in the black hole. And because the escaping velocity is higher than the speed of light.
That means the particles and wave motion are traveling at the same speed. So the photon and electron are dropping into a black hole at the same speed. The point where the escaping velocity crosses the speed of light is called the event horizon.
And behind the event horizon, all particles move at the same speed. The speed of light depends on the environment. Normally, the speed of light means the speed of light in a vacuum. But the speed of light is far slower in water. There are also photonic crystals where the speed of light is zero.
Then we must understand one thing. Faster than light travel means that the craft is traveling faster than photons around it. The fact is that the craft must just remove the quantum fields around it. And that thing makes it possible to shoot the particles faster than they can travel in their environment.
By making a quantum vacuum around the craft or particle is possible to remove the quantum fields that are slowing particles. That thing is possible. But of course, things like "Alcubierre drive" or warp technology require lots of work.
https://www.universetoday.com/155995/the-dream-of-faster-than-light-ftl-travel-dr-harold-sonny-white-and-limitless-space/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
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