NASA engineers at Johnson Space Center have been designing instruments to slightly warp the trajectory of a photon, changing the distance it travels in a certain area, and then observing the change with an interferometer. The team is experimenting with photons to see if warp drive — traveling faster than light — might one day be possible. Einstein famously postulated that the speed of light could not be exceeded. Dr. Harold G. White, a physicist and advanced propulsion engineer at NASA, however, believes that the instruments he is constructing have made render warp speed less implausible.

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