Using the space vehicles we currently have developed, it would take 50,000 years to travel 25 trillion miles to Alpha Centauri. That’s the next solar system over, just a little more than 4 light-years from here.
If we could achieve warp-speed travel it would mean that could make the round-trip in 8 years. But warp-speed is faster than light. We have the “will” we just need to find a “way”!
Breaking the warp-barrier
According to Albert Einstein, the father of modern physics, it’s impossible to travel faster than the speed of light.
In Einstein’s general theory of relativity, it is physically impossible for mass to move that fast! If mass surpasses light-speed it goes straight to infinity. And that would require an infinite amount of energy to accelerate to that FTL. In simpler terms, there is a warp-barrier.
In Lentz’s paper, he claims that you can overcome this barrier “by constructing a class of soliton solutions .” A soliton is a quantum or quasiparticle propagated as a traveling non-dissipative wave.
