00:03We don't yet have warp drives capable of taking us across the galaxy and beyond in an instant.
00:09But in an attempt to figure out how we might build one, researchers have come up with an interesting theory.
00:14A major consideration with warp drives is all of the negative energy required to maintain them.
00:18So what would happen if one flew into a black hole?
00:20A black hole's massive surplus of gravity might be able to reduce that negative energy requirement,
00:25letting the warp drive take those on board elsewhere without being smashed to bits.
00:29The specific black hole they say might work for this is a Schwarzschild black hole,
00:33or one that is neither electrically charged nor rotating.
00:36The researchers say you could theoretically place a warp drive somewhere in the outer orbit of the black hole.
00:40Then the warp bubble could not only be sustained, but while moving at less than the speed of light,
00:45it would counteract the black hole's event horizon, effectively erasing the point of no return surrounding all black holes.
00:51Their theory also suggests that the warp drive might change the black hole as well,
00:55writing in their conclusion that when the warp drive is completely absorbed by the black hole,
00:59it may decrease its mass and therefore its entropy.
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