{"id":34472,"date":"2014-06-11T09:18:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T16:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=34472"},"modified":"2016-09-11T04:21:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T11:21:44","slug":"nasas-warp-drive-ship-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2014\/06\/nasas-warp-drive-ship-design\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Warp Drive Ship Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34475\" alt=\"FTLShip061114\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/FTLShip061114.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/FTLShip061114.jpg 580w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/FTLShip061114-50x19.jpg 50w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/FTLShip061114-150x58.jpg 150w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/FTLShip061114-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/FTLShip061114-450x175.jpg 450w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/FTLShip061114-50x19@2x.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new design from NASA Physicist<strong> Harold White<\/strong> shows what a ship designed for faster-than-light travel might look like.<\/p>\n<p>White teamed up with Artist<strong> Mark Rademaker<\/strong> to create a model which will look familiar to<em> Star Trek<\/em> fans.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34481\" alt=\"Warptheory061114\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Warptheory061114.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Warptheory061114.jpg 500w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Warptheory061114-50x38.jpg 50w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Warptheory061114-50x38@2x.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>White and his team have been working on a design for a faster-than-light ship since 2012. Their work is still in the experimental stage, but is based on real math.<\/p>\n<p>The new design owes its origins to<em> Star Trek<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>Matt Jeffries<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>See more images of the model <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/123021064@N05\/sets\/72157644113972600\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The video below features White discussing the model and the potential for a warp drive ship. The pertinent part of the discussion begins at the 41:54 mark.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9M8yht_ofHc\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new design from NASA Physicist Harold White shows what a ship designed for faster-than-light&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2428],"tags":[2698,7334,3680,7337],"class_list":["post-34472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trek-tech","tag-nasa","tag-science","tag-ship","tag-white"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/trek-tech\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Trek Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Trek Tech","comment_count":"11","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34484,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34472\/revisions\/34484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}