Regularly featured in the global media including the AP, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Discovery, Forbes, Telegraph, TIME, ViacomCBS, and WIRED, Matthews mission is to help organisations create a fair and sustainable future whose benefits are shared by everyone irrespective of their ability, background, or circumstances.įanatical Futurist by 311 Institute 5.1K subscribers Matthew Griffin, one of the world's most renowned futurists and foresight experts, thirteen times author of the Codex of the Future Series, distinguished international keynote, and host of the hit FanaticalFuturist podcast, is the Founder and Futurist in Chief of the 311 Institute, a global futures and deep futures advisory firm working across the next 50 years, and XPotential University, the world's first free to attend futures and foresight university that's open to all.Ī rare talent Matthews ability to identify, track, and explain the impacts of hundreds of powerful emerging technologies and trends on global business, culture, and society has earned him a powerful reputation and a portfolio of clients that include royalty, world leaders, G7 and G20 governments, and many of the world's most respected and recognised brands including ABB, Accenture, Adidas, AON, ARM, BCG, Centrica, Citi Group, Coca Cola, Decathlon, Dentons, Deloitte, Disney, KPMG, Lego, Legal & General, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Pepsi Co, Qualcomm, Samsung, T-Mobile, UBS, VISA, and many others. Scientific study of the potential of warp drive is now officially on the table. “While conducting analysis related to a DARPA-funded project to evaluate possible structure of the energy density present in a Casimir cavity as predicted by the dynamic vacuum model,” reads the actual findings published in the peer-reviewed European Physical Journal, “a micro/nano-scale structure has been discovered that predicts negative energy density distribution that closely matches requirements for the Alcubierre metric.” And that, in turn, opens the door to investigation of possible future investigation of warp fields, and potential applications. It’s still valid inside the warp bubble, but the bubble itself can theoretically move faster than light without breaking the laws of physics to do it. If you surrounded the local Euclidean space your ship occupies with a warp bubble, and then push the warp bubble instead of the ship itself, Einsten’s equation is sidestepped. The concept of the Alcubierre warp bubble makes things interesting. It’s impossible to accelerate faster than light using standard physics, because your ship just gets more massive the more energy you put in, and it gets so massive you can’t do anything more with it. The other limitation is that your ship is still subject to Einstein’s equation describing special relativity, which states that as you approach the speed of light, more and more of the energy you expend goes into increasing your own mass, until you reach the point where no matter how much more energy you put in you can’t go any faster - and you never quite reach the speed of light. The limitation of this approach is that eventually you run out of stuff to throw. Throughout the history of aviation and aeronautics, this meant burning fuel and shooting out the back of the ship in a vigorous physical reaction. To accelerate your ship, you have to throw something in the opposite direction to the one in which you wish to travel. Most people are familiar with the concept of warp drive through what they’ve seen on Star Trek, but today our spacecraft are currently limited to the laws of standard Einsteinian physics.
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