Aspiring physicists intent on designing warp drives to enable space travelers to outrun Klingons or merely shorten the time spent spanning interstellar distances can potentially make it so with a new tool devised by Applied Physics. Warp Factory has been launched by this multidisciplinary group of international scientists and engineers as a publicly accessible toolkit to support theoretical testing and advancement of realistic warp drive technologies that propel craft at faster-than-light speeds.

“Physicists can now generate and refine an array of warp drive designs with just a few clicks, allowing us to advance science at warp speed," said Gianni Martire, CEO of Applied Physics. “Warp Factory serves as a virtual wind tunnel, enabling us to test and evaluate different warp designs. Science fiction is now inching closer to science fact.”

Generate and refine an array of warp drive designs with Warp Factory. Source: Applied Physics

By leveraging numerical analysis, Warp Factory enables the examination of general warp drive geometries by evaluating relevant Einstein field equations and computing energy conditions. The numerical approach provides researchers with new insights including 3D visualizations and the ability to conduct comprehensive analysis of stress-energy tensors.

The developers also invite interested researchers to contribute to this revolutionary field through the Warp Grant program.