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    What happens when your warp drive fails? Scientists have the answer

    Antimatter entered the conversation because the article incorrectly claims that negative mass is the fuel used with fictional Star Trek reactors.
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    What happens when your warp drive fails? Scientists have the answer

    No, it is not made up. Plenty of technobabble in ST certainly is, but antimatter is a very real thing that has already been created. The imaginary ships of the Federation specifically use antideuterium, which consists of a positron, an antiproton, and an antineutron.
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    What happens when your warp drive fails? Scientists have the answer

    I'm flabbergasted Robert Lea decided to reference Star Trek's technology without even knowing the basics of that technology. "In Star Trek, exotic matter with negative mass allows the USS Enterprise to travel at faster-than-light or "warp speeds" by generating a warp bubble around the ship in...