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welcome to the cotkey ride home for fr, March 5th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird. Will warp drive ever be possible?

These scientists say they've created the first physical model for how it could work.

A look back at the Star Wars immunization PSAs of the 1970s and a potential new type of

COVID-19 test that would double as a form of stress relief. Here are some of the cool things

from the news today. Scientists at the Advanced Propulsion Laboratory or APL at Applied Physics say they have developed a physical model for how we could actually, for real, achieve warp drive.

First, a brief refresher on how exactly warp drive theoretically works.

Fizz.org points out that while in its most famous fictional representation on Star Trek,

warp drive may look like technology that propels an engine forward at faster than the speed of light.

In actuality, it's more about warping space time, not warping the drive, so to speak.

Put simply, quoting fizz.org, imagine a napkin. If you had to traverse

its entire surface, it would take a certain amount of time. But what if you folded the napkin in

half and moved through and across the folds? You could get to your destination in almost no time,

end quote. Most of our modern understanding of warp Drive comes from the work of Miguel El Cubiar,

a Mexican theoretical physicist who proposed what we now call the Alcubier Drive in 1994,

quoting Esquire,

Essentially, an Alcubier drive would expend a tremendous amount of energy,

likely more than what's available within the universe, to contract and

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