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Warp engines make a little stable bubble of space and shift what's around it, so onboard time matches galaxy time, and you can jaunt a significant way across the galaxy and still be home in a few years Earth time.



Unfortunately, there's the small matter of them requiring orders of magnitude more energy than exists in the universe.

Link to the Alcubierre Drive - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive


ahhhhh ... ok :)


That sounds really cool. Where can I get one of those?




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