TLDR is that physicists figured out a theoretical way to build a warp drive without using exotic matter and violating known physical laws. This new warp drive concept wouldn’t allow faster-than-light travel, but it’s a significant step in understanding gravity and the possibilities of manipulating spacetime. While the practical implementation of this warp drive isn’t happening any time soon, the paper also challenges previous assumptions that energy conditions, which are additions to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, prevent the creation of warp drives.
TLDR is that physicists figured out a theoretical way to build a warp drive without using exotic matter and violating known physical laws. This new warp drive concept wouldn’t allow faster-than-light travel, but it’s a significant step in understanding gravity and the possibilities of manipulating spacetime. While the practical implementation of this warp drive isn’t happening any time soon, the paper also challenges previous assumptions that energy conditions, which are additions to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, prevent the creation of warp drives.
Precisely, and Zephram Cochrane will use a first prototype in 2063 ;)