Dr. Katy Clough

So this is the real problem is that, you know, just a bit isn't enough.

And, you know, the quantum experiments tend to make, you know, small amounts.

So actually to construct a warp drive, you need the amount of negative energy is sort of the equivalent of the positive energy of our sun, for example.

So it's a lot.

Yeah, so it's a kind of dangerous thing.

So you would really want to construct it around you.

So in the bubble itself, space is not stretched or squashed at all.

But then you put some matter around you, some of this negative energy matter around you, so that the space around you is stretched and squashed.

And you definitely wouldn't want to pass through the bubble wall when it was active because that would stretch and squash you as it stretches and squashes space.

So you would definitely find that a bad experience.

So actually just constructing the bubble is enough.

So if the bubble is constructed correctly, it will automatically start to compress the space in front of you and stretch the space behind.

And in this way, you kind of surf through the space-time.

on this this wave of curvature wow so yeah and you sitting in the bubble you don't really feel anything you still just feel like you're sitting in space so it's not like being in a rocket where you'd be kind of pressed against the back wall as it drives through space it's really something that that doesn't rely on the kind of normal momentum exchange of momentum of of expelling some fuel that we normally use to power a rocket it's very it's it's chill essentially

It's a very chill way to travel through space.

So, yeah, in principle, the warp drive, because, as I say, you're not actually traveling faster than the speed of light locally.

You're actually just making space get smaller.

You can travel, in principle, faster than the speed of light.

So you could get there almost instantly.

I have to say, you know, this is theoretical.