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An Alcubierre drive is a hypothetical engine which is capable of faster than light travel by enveloping the spacecraft in a bubble of curved spacetime. This shell is allowed to travel faster than light, the spacecraft moving less than the speed of light inside the shell.

The drive does require the existence of a type of exotic matter; matter with an imaginary mass. Such matter has never been observed and is considered highly speculative.

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