NASA and Warp Drive in the same sentence?? At first I couldn’t believe it, but apparently, Yes…

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration IS WAS reviewing the potential of Warp Drives and Wormholes as part of its Breakthrough Propulsion Physics (BPP) Project.

The BPP Project is charged with discovering new methods to power spacecraft, including such methods as propellant-less propulsion, and hyper-fast travel.

BPP has investigated and declined to pursue a number of proposals, including Superluminal Tunneling, which involves faster-than-light information transfer.

At BPP, work was slowly continuing on a number of other approaches, such as Metric Engineering, which seems to be a new term for “the notion of warping space” (a warp drive could conceivably move a bubble of spacetime, which carries a vehicle inside)…

…I say “was“, because, unfortuntely, funding for BPP was cut off last year. What a shame. Oh well, maybe the underlying physics just wasn’t there, or perhaps the CNSA in China will run with this.

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