Because I Must

Nerd-credentials must be kept up, you know. Thanks to a friend of mine, I came across this excellent article that uses a lot of words I don't understand to explain something nerds everywhere have loved forever: the warp drive!

Cleaver and Richard Obousy, the other coauthor, propose manipulating the 11th dimension, a special theoretical construct of m-theory (the offspring of string theory), to create the bubble the ship would surf down.

And by golly if that doesn't whet your appetite for this contraption that is probably a few hundred thousand years away, then nothing will!