Warp drives and reality: new hope for a Galactic Empire?

Very quick post today, but an article on our warp drive paper has been published in The Conversation. It's called "Warp drives and reality: new hope for a Galactic Empire?" Here's a taster:

Fans of science fiction must be disheartened when introduced to Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity. Dreams of galactic empires, criss-crossed by roguish princesses and beautiful smugglers, go out the window with one simple rule: “thou shalt not travel faster than the speed of light”.
Even a rocket ship travelling just under the speed of light (roughly 1 billion km/h) would take more than 100,000 years to get from one side of the Milky Way to the other. That’s slightly longer than the fraction of a second required to traverse galaxies in science fiction staples such as Star Wars.



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