These scientists think they can detect alien ships traveling at the speed of light

If we can’t travel at the speed of light ourselves, it might be possible to detect alien ships that already use this technology. At least, that’s what researchers believe.

Is there a intelligent extraterrestrial life in space? A big question that has fueled scientific debates for many years, and which is a source of inspiration for many works of fiction. In the vast majority of cases, We imagine aliens to be much more technologically advanced than us.traveling aboard futuristic ships powered by means that one can only dream of on Earth. For example, the famous warp engine of Star Trekwhich allows move at the speed of light or even beyond.

But while it is only just beginning to be demonstrated that building such a machine is theoretically possible, researchers believe that they already exist, somewhere above our heads. We just need to know what to look for to spot them. Based on this premise, a study is interested in what would happen if such an engine were to experience a “containment failure“, in other words a technical problem that would leave a detectable trace in space.

Ships using warp drives would be detectable in space.

The general idea is that in the event of damage, A warp drive would create specific gravitational waves. Research explains that it is possible to “simulate [son] evolution over time from an equation of state describing matter“. The signal of the waves thus produced is then decoded before being followed, which would prove the passage of an alien ship. This is of course a theory, but one that has its uses according to Katy Clough, Tim Dietrich and Sebastian Khan, the authors of the study.

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If they are aware that their idea has “a rather speculative application to the search for extraterrestrial life“, they especially emphasize”the importance of exploring strange new space-times, to simulate (audaciously) what no one has seen before“It will surely be faster to detect possible extraterrestrial life than to encourage them to come and play tourists on our planet.