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WRAP DRIVE

The concept of wrap drive is common in sci-fi world where we all see a spaceship with wrap drive technologies. But what is wrap drive? Wrap drive was first given by John. W. Campbell in 1931 novel Islands of Space. In Albert Einstein theory of special relativity says that mass-energy is interchangeable. No one can travel faster than light except the photons which have a mass less particle and above its mass no one can travel faster than speed of light. If one could do this then one need infinite amount of energy to do this. The warp drive concept is seen in the Hollywood movie Star Trek: The Original Series, “The Cage”. In which the crews used an hyper drive/time warp technology to break the light’s barrier and then return to the earth as soon as possible. But one thing is important is warp drive is different concept than time dilation. Warp drive avoids the time dilation concept. However, the warp drive concept is something like to create your own bubble in region of space time