Experts: Warp Drive Is Possible

Two physicists believe the fictional "warp drive" of Star Trek fame could someday become a reality, the Daily Telegraph reports. The scientists theorize that a mysterious cosmic force called dark energy could be harnessed to warp space around a vessel, allowing a spacecraft to travel faster than light—"like a surfer riding a wave."

The laws of physics which say faster-than-light travel is impossible would be circumvented by warping the fabric of space itself, the men write in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. The physicists admit that creating such a drive is light years away—and that triggering it would require converting a mass equivalent to 300 Earths into energy. (More spacecraft stories.)