Editing Starship (section)

===Theoretical possibilities===
[[File:Wormhole travel as envisioned by Les Bossinas for NASA.jpg|thumb|Artist's depiction of a hypothetical ''Wormhole Induction Propelled Spacecraft'', based loosely on the 1994 [[Alcubierre drive|"warp drive"]] paper of [[Miguel Alcubierre]]]]

The [[Alcubierre drive]] is a speculative [[warp drive]] conjectured by Mexican physicist [[Miguel Alcubierre]] in a 1994 paper which has not been [[peer-review]]ed.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Alcubierre |first=Miguel |title=The warp drive: hyper-fast travel within general relativity |url=https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0264-9381/11/5/001/meta |publisher=[[Institute of Physics]] | journal=[[Classical and Quantum Gravity]] |volume=11 |number=5 |date=1994|pages=L73–L77 |doi=10.1088/0264-9381/11/5/001 |arxiv=gr-qc/0009013 |bibcode=1994CQGra..11L..73A |s2cid=4797900 }} (Letter to the Editor)</ref> The paper suggests that space itself could be topographically warped to create a local region of spacetime wherein the region ahead of the "warp bubble" is compressed, allowed to resume normalcy within the bubble, and then rapidly expanded behind the bubble creating an effect that results in apparent FTL travel, all in a manner consistent with the Einstein field equations of [[general relativity]] and without the introduction of wormholes.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Alcubierre |first=Miguel |title=The warp drive: hyper-fast travel within general relativity |journal=Classical and Quantum Gravity | doi=	10.1088/0264-9381/11/5/001 |date=5 September 2000|volume=11 |issue=5 |pages=L73–L77 |arxiv=gr-qc/0009013 |bibcode=1994CQGra..11L..73A |s2cid=4797900 }}</ref> However, the actual construction of such a drive would face other [[Alcubierre drive#Difficulties|serious theoretical difficulties]].