[Renderofveils]

So to alleviate the device's requiring prohibitive amounts of energy to operate, it just needs to be made out of particles that haven't even been encountered.

Nice.

[Las Vegas Ron]

What about the effects on the human body during acceleration/deceleration?

[MeganC]

If it is imaginable then it is entirely possible. People once used to scoff at all sorts of things that we now take for granted so I’m not going to be so quick to dismiss this. If the particles needed have not been encountered, but have been postulated, then at least we now know what we’re looking for.

[GeronL]

Space, science, sci-fi pings?

[Lazamataz]

Just use Unobtainium!

[justlurking]

So to alleviate the device's requiring prohibitive amounts of energy to operate, it just needs to be made out of particles that haven't even been encountered.

You don't have any unobtainium in your garage?

Seriously, the "original" Alcubierre drive also relies on exotic matter. The "breakthrough" that is claimed in this article is that modification of the geometry of the warp bubble reduces the energy requirement from "astronomical" to merely "large".

[Bratch]

So to alleviate the device's requiring prohibitive amounts of energy to operate, it just needs to be made out of particles that haven't even been encountered.

We've known that all along.

Dilithium Crystals

As the key element in all Federation warp engine designs, the dilithium crystal mediates the reaction between the matter and anti-matter in a starship's main engine core.

Dilithium is the only material known to be non-reactive with antimatter when subjected to a high frequency electromagnetic (EM) field, rendering it "porous" to antihydrogen.

Dilithium permits antimatter to pass directly through it's crystalline structure without actually coming into contact with it, due to a field dynamo effect.

Once found only in nature, the technology of the 24th Century antieutectics enables the formation of pure, synthesized dilithium and dilithium matrix re-crystallization through the use of high energy photon injection.

[wbill]

So to alleviate the device's requiring prohibitive amounts of energy to operate, it just needs to be made out of particles that haven't even been encountered.

Yeah....I'll get right on that.

I suppose that it's good for people to dream. My only problem is when "dreams" get reported as "news". Or worse, "science".

[fella]

There's always some kind of motorhead that will find a way to adjust the spark gap, aspiration rate, gear ratio or whatever to get some more oooumph out of any machine.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Maybe those unencountered particles will be ormus!