NASA tests WARP DRIVE capable of blasting ships from Earth to the Moon in just FOUR hours

NASA is believed to be testing a Warp Drive which could one day blast a manned spaceship FASTER than the speed of light.

The EMDrive could slash the current four day journey to the Moon to less than four HOURS PARAMOUNT • YOUTUBE

The EMDrive could slash the current four day journey to the Moon to less than four HOURS

The Warp Drive is expected to slash the current four day journey from the Earth to the Moon to less than four HOURS.

Researchers believe a trip to Alpha Centauri – the nearest star system to our sun – could be cut from 160,000 to 100 years.

The new technology is based on an electromagnetic drive, or EMDrive, which converts electric power to thrust without the need for fuel.

EMDrives generate thrust by bouncing microwaves inside a closed container.

Solar panels generate the electricity to power the thruster, which means the EMDrive is completely self-sufficient.

NASA has carried out a number of tests on the technology, which has been labelled "impossible" because it cannot be explained with our current understanding of physics.

Warp Drives are a stable of many science fiction properties, including Star Trek PARAMOUNT PICTURES • YOUTUBE

Warp Drives are a stable of many science fiction properties, including Star Trek

NASA has successfully tested their EmDrive in a hard vacuum – the first time any organisation has reported such a successful test

British aerospace engineer Roger Shawyer is credited with first designing the concept for a EMDrive back in 2000.

A Chinese team – following instructions from Mr Shawyer – allegedly produced 720 millinewton (around 72g) of thrust in 2009.

Last year, an advanced propulsion research wing at NASA announced it has successfully tested the "impossible" technology.

NASA demonstrated the EMDrive could work in a space-like vacuum by producing some 30 to 50 micronewtons – less than a thousandth of the output of a relatively low-powered ion thruster.

Researchers understood to be involved in the project were spotted posting in an online forum on NasaSpaceFlight.com.

The scientists claim the reason the accuracy of previous EmDrive trials has been criticised is because none of the previous tests were carried out in a vacuum. 

"NASA has successfully tested their EmDrive in a hard vacuum – the first time any organisation has reported such a successful test," the anonymous researchers wrote.

"To this end, NASA Eagleworks has now nullified the prevailing hypothesis that thrust measurements were due to thermal convection."

However, the official NASA website claims: "There are many 'absurd' theories that have become reality over the years of scientific research.

"But for the near future, warp drive remains a dream."

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