Man has always been amazed by speed. The survival of the human race has always been the constant search for a faster way to travel. It’s our nature to travel as fast as we can. We are constantly trying to go further and further but our fuel limitations have just not allowed us to do that. This is all about to change.
In 1994, a Mexican physicist named Miguel Alcubierre proposed a method of stretching space in waves which could cause the fabric of space ahead of an object to contract and that behind it to expand. This object would ride this wave inside a region known as a warp bubble of flat space. This theory has come to be known as the Alcubierre metric or Alcubierre drive.
The idea behind warp drive, similar to the Alcubierre drive, is that an object in space can travel faster-than-light using a special propulsion system. For those who do not know, the speed of light in a vacuum (“C” in the famous equation E=MC²) is 186,000 miles per second (700 million miles per hour). Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity (E=MC²), published in 1905, which states nothing can exceed the speed of light. That speed, explained Einstein, is a fundamental constant of nature: It appears the same to all observers anywhere in space. This theory says that an object gains mass as it speeds up, and that speeding up requires energy. The more mass an object gains, the more energy is required. By the time an object reached the speed of light, Einstein calculated, it’s mass would be infinite, which in turn the amount of energy required to increase it’s speed would also be infinite. To go beyond the infinite is impossible, according to Einstein. The closer an object approaches the speed of light, the heavier it will get until it will reach a theoretical point of infinity. Therefore, it is a theoretical improbability for an object to reach the speed of light. Here is my idea on how an object can achieve the speed of light or faster by simply “bypassing” Einstein’s theory.
One thing Einstein did not realize is that in his historic theory he also postulated a way to travel at the speed of light or even faster. Einstein’s great insight in the theory was that matter and energy are really different forms of the same thing, matter and energy are in fact interchangeable. Matter can be turned into energy, and energy can also be turned into matter. Consider a hydrogen atom, one of the simplest atoms that we know of, basically composed of a single proton. This particle has a mass of 0.000000000000000000000000001672 kg, which you can see is very small, but what is not realized is that in everyday quantities of this matter there are a lot of atoms. In one kilogram of water, the mass of hydrogen atoms adds up to be just a little more than 0.111 kg. Following Einstein’s formula, E=MC² you multiply the mass by the speed of light squared. Which would be 10 quadrillion (10,000,000,000,000,000) joules. This is an amazing amount of energy. You might be thinking a joule is not a large unit of energy; one joule is about the energy released when you drop a textbook to the floor, but the amount of energy in 30 grams of hydrogen atoms is the equivalent to burning hundreds of thousands of gallons of fossil fuel. The only way for this amount of energy to be released, is for the kilogram of water to be totally annihilated. Which would involve the complete destruction of matter; this only occurs when that matter meets an equal amount of antimatter; antimatter itself travels at tremendous speeds. Four antimatter protons were recorded to travel 33 feet in 40 billionths of a second. The existence of matter and antimatter together would cause a massive chain reaction, which, in theory, would produce the necessary energy to warp space.
What I believe needs to be done with all of this energy is to create a so called warp field around the object. This warp field would consist of layers of warped space, thereby distorting space and time around the object. This would allow the object to stay in two velocities simultaneously. However, this does pose a problem: the amount of energy it would take to warp space is astronomical. Therefore, the only way to obtain the necessary amount of energy would be to create a warp engine, which would run off of an ever-lasting flow of matter and antimatter as mentioned earlier.
The warp engine would use the energy by nesting layers of warp field energy, or as you read earlier, mathematically speaking it would be called an Alcubierre metric, with each layer exerting a controlled amount of force on the layer after it. This is what I call Asymmetrical Peristaltic Field Manipulation (APFM), which would be created by a warp nacelle. However, this reaction does carry tremendous danger. Antimatter theory states, if a tiny bit of antimatter comes into contact with our world, a catastrophic explosion would result. However, if you could harness antimatter, safely, for warp propulsion, it would serve as a source of clean, unlimited energy for not only travel, but limitless possibilities.
If my theory proves correct, an object could travel faster-than-light, depending upon the number of warp fields generated by the nacelle around the object. The controlled annihilation of matter and antimatter would provide the amount of energy necessary to create the warp fields. To quote Einstein, “Now, is this merely mechanics, or is it Nature that we deal with in all of this? And what else then Nature are the elementals of Space and Time?”