14 DAY TRIAL // When you work at NASA, getting inspiration from sci-fi movies might not be such a bad idea after all. Researchers at the Johnson Space Center are hoping to one day prove it’s possible to travel faster than the speed of light.
Dr. Harold White, NASA physicist, believes it is possible to bend time and space, despite what Albert Einstein said, RT reports.
The research he bases his theories on belongs to a Mexican physicist, Miguel Alcubierre who believes it is possible to exceed the galactic speed limit expressed by Einstein.
However, this is only possible if scientists manage to harness the expansion and contraction of space.
Dr. White hopes to do just that by creating a “warp bubble” that expands space on one side of a spaceship and contract it on the other.
But this stage is still far away and Dr. White wants to try this on a smaller scale, namely by warping the trajectory of a photon to see if it can propel its travel at speeds that are faster than light.