Warp drives, negative mass, exotic matter these all sound like the stuff of science fiction. But MIT explains how our strangerthanfiction universe could be explained by actual physics!

Alcubierre Warp Drive visualization courtesy of Sergiu Ikarus http://ikarus.artstation.com/
Earth image courtesy of NASA
NASA's Is the Warp Drive Real? http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/tec...
Negative mass: https://einstein.stanford.edu/content...

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Written by: Elizabeth Choe ‘13 with Isaac Yandow ‘15
Additional scripting: George Zaidan ‘08
Content review: Cooper Rinzler, MIT Allanore Research Group

Produced by: Elizabeth Choe ‘13
Director: George Zaidan ‘08
Editor: Per Hoel
Special effects: Loren Sherman ‘16
Production assistant: Ceri Riley ‘16
Hosted by: Isaac Yandow ‘15
Special thanks: Nika Hollingsworth