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Description: Warp drives, negative mass, exotic matter - these all sound like the stuff of science fiction. But MIT explains how our stranger-than-fiction universe could be explained by actual physics! ---------- Alcubierre Warp Drive visualization courtesy of Sergiu Ikarus ikarus.artstation.com Earth image courtesy of NASA NASA's Is the Warp Drive Real? nasa.gov/centers/glenn/technology/warp/warp.html Negative mass: einstein.stanford.edu/content/relativity/q296.html ---------- Find us online! Facebook: facebook.com/MITK12 Twitter: twitter.com/MITK12Videos k12videos.mit.edu ---------- made with love at MIT Creative Commons: CC BY-NC-SA, MIT k12videos.mit.edu/terms-and-conditions Written by: Elizabeth Choe ‘13 with Isaac Yandow ‘15 Additional scripting: George Zaidan ‘08 Content review: Cooper Rinzler, MIT Allanore Research Group Produced by: Elizabeth Choe ‘13 Director: George Zaidan ‘08 Editor: Per Hoel Special effects: Loren Sherman ‘16 Production assistant: Ceri Riley ‘16 Hosted by: Isaac Yandow ‘15 Special thanks: Nika Hollingsworth