Στο Space.com εξηγεί την θεωρία καλύτερα:
http://www.space.com/21140-star-trek-warp-drive-possible.htmlI am better at this in English, because most of my physics studies are in English. You have to get around the universal speed limit which is the speed of light. And this is according to Einstein's theory of relativity. In order to travel at the speed of light, you need to be massless or your mass becomes infinite (according to the equations of general relativity). Also, accelerating to the speed of light needs infinite energy. Which means that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Neutrinos having small mass travel at near the speed of light but not at the speed of light.
What they are proposing though is different: it is not the object that will travel at that speed; rather they will bend spacetime, contract it in front as to move the object in a bubble that contracts spacetime in front of the object. And because this needs a lot of energy they are trying to harness vacuum energy. What is vacuum energy? According to quantum mechanics, empty space is not empty. At least not in physical terms. What are called virtual particles, usually a matter-antimatter pair, pop up and get destroyed all the time. Vacuum has potential energy, and it is this energy they are trying to harness. I do not know the details of this, and we will have to wait and see what they come up with.
In the above article it explains the experiment, but not how they are going to warp spacetime. I will probably have to wait for the paper if they succeed.