Dr. Harold 'Sonny' White is still working on a warp drive at NASA Eagleworks-a skunkworks operation at NASA's Johnson Space Center. His work is still in the experimental stages but that doesn't mean they can't imagine already what the real life Enterprise ship can look like. This is it. http://ift.tt/1kZ3xv7...
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Concept 3D artist Mark Rademaker told io9 that 'he worked with White to create the updated model, which includes a sleek ship nestled at the center of two enormous rings, which create the warp bubble.' The updated model is the one you can see above, a variation of the original concept which, according to Dr. White, was rendered by Rademaker based on an idea by Matthew Jeffries, the guy who came with 'the familiar Star Trek look.' This is the original warp drive spaceship concept:
Dr. White-whose daily life is working in future propulsion solutions for interplanetary travel in the near future, like ion and plasma thrusters-developed new theoretical work that solved the problems of the Alcubierre Drive concept, a theory that allowed faster-than-light travel based on Einstein's field equations in general relativity, developed by theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre.
A spaceship equipped with a warp drive would allow faster-than-light travel by bending the space around it, making distances shorter. At the local level, however, the spaceship wouldn't be moving faster than light. Therefore, warp drive travel doesn't violate the first Einstein commandment: Thou shall not travel faster than light.
Here's more views of the IXS Enterprise during its construction phase, the concept that Dr. White developed with Rademaker:
You can watch the fascinating talk that Dr. White gave at the SpaceVision 2013 conference here:
The spacecraft reminds me a bit to the spaceship in Chris Nolan's Interstellar, a film that-in theory-will portrait realistic faster-than-light travel. This is partial view of the ship in the movie, which also has a ring of some sort around it.
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