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Interstellar travel simply isn't happening without something like the Alcubierre drive.



Even the Alcubierre drive may not actually work:

https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/11/warp-drive-news-se...

> As I explained earlier, the relevant question is then, what does the wall of the passenger area have to be made of? Is this a physically possible distribution of mass and energy? Bobrick and Martire explain that if you want superluminal motion, you need negative energy densities. If you want acceleration, you need to feed energy and momentum into the system. And the only reason the Alcubierre Drive moves faster than the speed of light is that one simply assumed it does. Suddenly it all makes sense!




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