Warp Theorists say We’ve entered an Exotic Propulsion Space Race to build the World’s First Working Warp Drive

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>An international team of physicists behind several revolutionary warp drive concepts, including [the first to require no exotic matter](https://thedebrief.org/new-warp-drive-model-requires-no-exotic-matter-scientists-say-we-can-build-it/), says that recent unprecedented breakthroughs in physics and propulsion have launched the world powers into a Cold War-style, 21st-century space race to build the world’s first working warp drive.

>“We have a space race brewing,” said Gianni Martie, the founder of the *Applied Physics* (AP) think tank and co-author on a pair of forthcoming warp drive research papers, in an email to *The Debrief*. “There’s still *a ton* to discover and invent, but we have the next steps now, which we didn’t have before.”

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>In an effort to better understand the history of warp theory, the scientific viability of the most current warp drive concepts, what the media always gets wrong about this category of research, and what the next steps in this potential space race might look like, *The Debrief* reached out to the team at Applied Physics, resulting in an exchange that suggests the futuristic science familiar to viewers of *Star Trek* may be closer than we think.

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>**AP:** Humanity has made small steps into the warp age from a theoretical perspective, and recent efforts show that we can make advances in the field. In terms of a new space race, not yet, but interest is growing. China published warp papers soon after our paper came out, and they have been heavily investing in space.

No exotic matter you say?

Not a warp drive they say.

> the physical nature of the new design means it is constrained by Newtonian physics. In short, it is not capable of breaking the speed of light.