The Science of Warp Drives

Warp drives, negative mass, exotic matter - these all sound like the stuff of science fiction. But MIT explains how our stranger-than-fiction universe could be explained by actual physics! ---------- Alcubierre Warp Drive visualization courtesy of Sergiu Ikarus http://ikarus.artstation.com/ Earth image courtesy of NASA NASA's Is the Warp Drive Real? http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/tec... Negative mass: https://einstein.stanford.edu/content... ---------- Find us online! Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MITK12 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/MITK12Videos http://k12videos.mit.edu ---------- made with love at MIT Creative Commons: CC BY-NC-SA, MIT http://k12videos.mit.edu/terms-and-co... Written by: Elizabeth Choe ‘13 with Isaac Yandow ‘15 Additional scripting: George Zaidan ‘08 Content review: Cooper Rinzler, MIT Allanore Research Group Produced by: Elizabeth Choe ‘13 Director: George Zaidan ‘08 Editor: Per Hoel Special effects: Loren Sherman ‘16 Production assistant: Ceri Riley ‘16