{"id":231406,"date":"2024-06-12T13:57:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T13:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/12\/we-could-detect-a-malfunctioning-warp-drive-on-an-alien-starship\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:17:17","slug":"we-could-detect-a-malfunctioning-warp-drive-on-an-alien-starship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/12\/we-could-detect-a-malfunctioning-warp-drive-on-an-alien-starship\/","title":{"rendered":"We could detect a malfunctioning warp drive on an alien starship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" alt=\"HDB7EX STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, Starship Enterprise, 1987-1994. Paramount\/Courtesy:Everett Collection.\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/11141233\/SEI_208269744.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/11141233\/SEI_208269744.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/11141233\/SEI_208269744.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/11141233\/SEI_208269744.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/11141233\/SEI_208269744.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/11141233\/SEI_208269744.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/11141233\/SEI_208269744.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/11141233\/SEI_208269744.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/11141233\/SEI_208269744.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/11141233\/SEI_208269744.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/11141233\/SEI_208269744.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/11141233\/SEI_208269744.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/11141233\/SEI_208269744.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/11141233\/SEI_208269744.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/11141233\/SEI_208269744.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/11141233\/SEI_208269744.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/11141233\/SEI_208269744.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/11141233\/SEI_208269744.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/11141233\/SEI_208269744.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/11141233\/SEI_208269744.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/11141233\/SEI_208269744.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2435137\" data-caption=\"A failing warp drive could release gravitational waves\" data-credit=\"Everett Collection Inc \/ Alamy\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">A failing warp drive could release gravitational waves<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Everett Collection Inc \/ Alamy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence that aliens are flying around the galaxy in starships powered by faster-than-light warp drives \u2013 but if they were, we could detect such a ship breaking down using our current Earth-based technology, say researchers. Such a discovery could confirm the existence of alien life, though sadly any crew aboard the ship would be torn apart by forces similar to a black hole.<\/p>\n<p>While warp drives are best known from\u00a0<em>Star Trek<\/em>, theoretical physicists have found it should be possible to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2269544-a-warp-drive-that-doesnt-break-the-laws-of-physics-is-possible\/\">create a bubble of\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2434417-we-could-detect-a-malfunctioning-warp-drive-on-an-alien-starship\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A failing warp drive could release gravitational waves Everett Collection Inc \/ Alamy There is no evidence that aliens are flying around the galaxy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}