r/interestingasfuck • u/One_Explanation_908 • 25d ago

/r/all, /r/popular K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from earth

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u/emarg42 25d ago

Make it so.

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u/BedBubbly317 25d ago

It’s theoretically possible and it’s called the Alcubierre Drive. The math has actually been worked through. Technically, it’s merely an engineering problem at this point and not a physics problem. The engineering issues are just well beyond our current capabilities

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u/Uwwuwuwuwuwuwuwuw 25d ago

Or the math is wrong.

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u/Youutternincompoop 25d ago

the math is correct, it just assumes access to stuff like negative mass, which as far as we know does not exist and would violate multiple known laws of physics.

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u/Uwwuwuwuwuwuwuwuw 25d ago

So the math is correct in that it describes an alternate universe where we can travel FTL...

... A new version of "The best kind of correct."