Boffins say we have already got tech to search out UFOs utilizing Star Trek-style Warp Drives
Boffins have confessed we could already have the technology to detect alien spaceships using Star Trek-style “Warp Drives”.
Experts believe the sci-fi-inspired tech, made famous due to the movie franchise, can give off specific gravitational waves. And they believe the waves, which can be spotted by the telescopes at the Ligo Observatory in Washington, US, could help detect little green men in Captain Kirk-style spaceships whizzing around our galaxy.
Warp drives are hypothetical devices that enable objects to travel faster than the speed of light by compressing the space in front of a starship and expanding it behind, creating an invisible “ripple”.
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Scientists Katy Clough, from Queen Mary University of London, Sebastian Khan, from Cardiff University and Professor Tim Dietrich, from the University of Potsdam, Germany have been studying signals from gravitational waves.
Their report said: “If there were aliens flying around our galaxy with the sort of warp drive technology we often see in sci-fi shows, what would the signal from their ships look like? Perhaps, surprisingly, our research shows we have the tools to answer this question.
“Telescopes that use light to probe space can now see almost to the edge of what is observable. Each new frequency we have explored – from gamma rays and x-rays, to infrared and radio – has taught us something new and unexpected.
“In 2015, a new kind of telescope, a detector called Ligo, was turned on, not looking for light waves but for gravitational waves, which are invisible ‘ripples’ in space and time. Again nature surprised us with a signal labelled GW150914 from a pair of black holes. Each were about thirty times the mass of our sun, merging together in a violent collision 1.4 billion light years away.
“Since then gravitational waves have become an essential new tool for scholars exploring the universe. But we are still at the very beginning of our explorations.”
