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Warp Engines In Development?
Toloran writes "Although a staple of Sci-Fi space travel, it is often deemed to be just that: Fiction. However, it seems that one is currently in development. "The theoretical engine works by creating an intense magnetic field that, according to ideas first developed by the late scientist Burkhard Heim in the 1950s, would produce a gravitational field and result in thrust for a spacecraft. Also, if a large enough magnetic field was created, the craft would slip into a different dimension, where the speed of light is faster, allowing incredible speeds to be reached. Switching off the magnetic field would result in the engine reappearing in our current dimension.""
All geeks know the philadelphia experiment.
None REALLY knows what happened.
One of the conjectures were a massive gravitational field was formed, (that was part of the goal to render the ship invisible to radar, by warping (not space warp) the radar by using magnetism, the fact that both einstein and tesla were involved makes me curious.
Is it possible they learned something here ?