Is warp speed possible?

None of the physically conceivable warp drives can accelerate to speeds faster than light,” Bobrick says. That is because you would require matter capable of being ejected at speeds faster than light—but no known particles can travel that fast.
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Is NASA making a warp drive?

DARPA and NASA Scientists Accidentally Create Warp Bubble for Interstellar Travel. A Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-funded research project at NASA's Johnson Space Center may have accidentally discovered how to build a warp drive engine. The scientists published their findings in July.
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Is warp drive possible 2021?

In 2021, physicist Erik Lentz described a way warp drives sourced from known and familiar purely positive energy could exist – warp bubbles based on superluminal self-reinforcing "soliton" waves.
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Are we close to warp speed?

Though significant, we're still a long way before interstellar travel and warp drive becomes a reality. However, with advancements in technology, the answers we're looking for might be close enough. According to Star Trek, warp drive was invented in 2063.
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What is the highest warp speed possible?

Transwarp generally refers to speeds and technologies that are beyond conventional warp drives. The warp drive has a natural physical or economical limit beyond which higher speeds are no longer possible. The reference work Star Trek Fact Files indicates this limit at warp factor 9.99.
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How long would it take to travel 70000 light years at warp 9?

Voyager was about 70,000 light-years away from home, and crew would often use "75 years" as the time it would take to get back home at top speed. This means the Voyager series used the old method of Warp calculation. 70,000/9.9753 is roughly 71 years.
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Why is warp 10 Impossible?

Our solution was to redraw the warp curve so that the exponent of the warp factor increases gradually, then sharply as you approach Warp 10. At Warp 10, the exponent (and the speed) would be infinite, so you could never reach this value.
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How fast can a human go without dying?

This is a well documented field, and the average maximum survivable g-force is about 16g (157m/s) sustained for 1 minute. However this limit depends on the individual, whether the acceleration is applied to one's entire body or just individual parts and the time in which the acceleration is endured over.
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Can a warp drive escape a black hole?

If Alcubierre warp bubbles are physically possible, which is exceedingly unlikely, and if the equivalence principle is correct, you could definitely escape from a black hole in one, because there's nothing locally special about the event horizon.
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Is a wormhole possible?

Einstein's theory of general relativity mathematically predicts the existence of wormholes, but none have been discovered to date. A negative mass wormhole might be spotted by the way its gravity affects light that passes by.
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How fast is Lightspeed?

Light from a stationary source travels at 300,000 km/sec (186,000 miles/sec).
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Is warp 1 the speed of light?

Warp one, a veritable snail's pace in the world of Trek, is equal to the speed of light. Warp speeds exceeding warp one equal a multiple of C (the speed of light), but the exact speeds are variable, depending on the source material. It seems the Federation altered its scale as time went on.
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Is time Travelling possible?

Yes, time travel is indeed a real thing. But it's not quite what you've probably seen in the movies. Under certain conditions, it is possible to experience time passing at a different rate than 1 second per second. And there are important reasons why we need to understand this real-world form of time travel.
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How many mph is warp 1?

Former NASA Scientist Demonstrates Why Star Trek's Warp Speeds Are Painfully Slow. In the sci-fi universe of "Star Trek", spaceships with warp drives can zoom past the normally impenetrable limit of light speed, or about 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second) in a vacuum.
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Is warp drive faster than light?

A warp drive is a device that distorts the shape of the space-time continuum. A spacecraft equipped with a warp drive may travel at speeds greater than that of light by many orders of magnitude.
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Will man ever leave the Solar System?

Climate change is altering our planet, and some have wondered if we may have to leave Earth to another distant planet. We will never escape climate change, and unfortunately, we will never leave the Solar System, and Earth may be our home forever.
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Can you escape the event horizon?

Since general relativity states that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, nothing inside the event horizon can ever cross the boundary and escape beyond it, including light. Thus, nothing that enters a black hole can get out or can be observed from outside the event horizon.
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Could an FTL ship escape a black hole?

Even if you were somehow able to break the laws of physics and travel faster than the speed of light, you still couldn't get out of a black hole. The space within black holes is curved in on itself, and so there is no direction you can travel in to get out of the black hole.
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How fast is 9 g's?

Normal humans can withstand no more than 9 g's, and even that for only a few seconds. When undergoing an acceleration of 9 g's, your body feels nine times heavier than usual, blood rushes to the feet, and the heart can't pump hard enough to bring this heavier blood to the brain.
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Do you feel speed in space?

It is not possible to feel speed while in a spacecraft. Astronauts in orbit travel at 28000 km/h but feel absolutely nothing, even if they're outside.
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How fast is 5g force?

At 5 Gs, a driver experiences a force equal to five times his weight. For instance, during a 5-G turn, there are 60 to 70 pounds of force pulling his head to the side.
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Do dilithium crystals exist?

In reality, dilithium (Li2) is a molecule composed of two covalently bonded lithium atoms which exists naturally in gaseous lithium. Dilithium is depicted as a valuable, extremely hard crystaline mineral that occurs naturally on some planets.
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How far is it from Earth to Vulcan?

The Real Vulcan:

This system is some 16 light-years from Earth, which is about 94 trillion miles (151 trillion km) away. Unfortunately, it would take us nearly 81,000 years to reach the *closest* star.
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Why was Voyager Cancelled?

Star Trek: Voyager

The show could never quite commit to its premise, the cast was uneven, and the writing was at times dire. Star Trek: Voyager ended on its own terms after seven seasons, but it limped to the finish line, rather than going out on top like The Next Generation.
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