Is NASA Moving Toward a Hyperspace Drive?

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Is NASA Moving Toward a Hyperspace Drive?

NASA has successfully tested electromagnetic propulsion in a hard vacuum for the first time.

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[DavidDvorkin]

1. No

Even if this turns out to work, it's still limited by the speed of light.

[Lionel Mandrake]

2. Hell no.

Hyperspace is hypotheticalspace. There's no evidence for it.

[struggle4progress]

3. +

[Orsino]

4. The term is space drive.

And if it works, it'll rewrite laws of physics.

[DetlefK]

5. The EM-Drive is not super-luminal.

If it works, it will be a small, cheap, extremely-low-performance engine.


The NASA is working on lab-desk models of an Alcubierre-Drive. Problem: To generate the warp-bubble it needs negative matter. Which doesn't exist to anybody's knowledge. Right now the NASA tries normal matter. Last thing I heard was that they are relocationg the experiment because earthquake-vibrations are messing with their measurements of gravitational waves.
(And even if they had negative matter and were capable of building it: In its current design the Alcubierre-Drive doubles as an interstellar doomsday-device. Not kidding.)