Snowplow / Warpdrive

Good morning!

Yesterday we ended talking about aerodynamics and snowplows.  Today we will use them in space.

On Earth, making an object so that it travels easier through a medium is simple.  Basically we just make it pointed or sharp.  Knives slice through butter because of it's thin leading edge.  Airplanes are long and thin so they encounter less resistance when they they fly.  This is an easy concept to test and observe on Earth because we are dealing with matter.  When we want to improve our speeds while traveling in space, we have to deal with energy and that makes things complicated.

In order to increase our top speeds we need an energy snowplow of sorts.  No longer are we concerned with thin edges and pointed nose-cones because now we are dealing with a medium that is made of pure energy.  We need a warp drive.

In Star Trek, the warp drive is a device that creates a sub-space bubble around the ship and allows it to travel at insane speeds because it is no longer part of the regular universe.  In the real world however we don't really know anything about sub-space but we can use the concept as inspiration.

What we can do is rip the fabric of the universe apart.  The fabric of existence, the neutral base energy we talked about, can be manipulated.  If we introduce energy at the right frequency and amplitude into space we can excite the NBE and cause it to contract.  When it contracts, a soft spot is made in the universe and we can travel through it, at amazing speeds, without having to deal with energy displacement.

 We travel in a bubble of pure nothing.  Actual nothing.  This is the dangerous part.

...which will be explained later.