Warp Drive, When? and Ruler for avancement by NASA

This is a very enlightening site for all of you hoping that interstellar travel will be achieved on the next 100 years Warp Drive, When?

In order to have this kind of technology first we have to be able to control gravity and the capability of FTL travel.

The Ruler for Advancement
Conjecture: The very beginning of the quest for knowledge. This is when you know what you’d like to accomplish, but you have no idea if it is even possible.
Speculation: When you have learned enough to know what you do know, and know what you don’t toward solving the problem.
Science: The level when you have learned how nature works. You now know if something can be done and what it will involve.
Technology: The level when you can begin to engineer and build working devices to apply those laws of nature to answer your goal.
Application: The final state when the technology is good enough to be put to common use. Cars, airplanes, microwave ovens are all in this category.

So where are we on the ruler on this? Speculation.

So, is it posible? Well, not on the foreseeable future, according to NASA. We still don't have the phyisics needed to accomplish such feats.

Check their website, it's comprehensive.

The problem with the whole "warp drive" theory is that it need made up elements to work. Trilithium and all those star trek fuels with their imaginary properties simply dont exist, or we havent found them yet. We do have many promising technologies for space exploration including the ion drive, laser based propulsion, zero point energy propulsion and other theoretical methods of space travel. Heres the problem. If you set a watch on earth, then go to the international space station for a few years, and come back, the time will be off. Actually, the farther away from earth you travel, the more distorted time becomes. You would come back and everyone you know would be long dead. The quantum universe is more whacky than you could possibly imagine; nothing makes sense at a quantum level. The entire universe is nothing but perception. Instead of killing out "mother" (earth) and looking to space for another, lets learn to live here without destorying everything, hm?

It's not going to occur any time soon, especially since NASA cut funding to their Breakthrough Propulsion program.

However, I did see an article earlier this year about a "hyperdrive" that has great potential.

Here it is:

www.theregister.co.uk...