Throughout its nearly 60 years of movies and shows, "Star Trek" has featured high-tech communication devices that vaguely resemble old-school flip phones, magical replicators that can conjure pretty much any known object at will, and a galaxy full of aliens that happen to look just like humans (although there's a solid canonical reason for that now ). But for every goofy-looking visor or turbo lift that requires passengers to grab onto a handle, there are countless more gadgets and theories that have a basis in actual science. Now, one of the most far-fetched ones could be closer than ever to becoming a reality.

Even the most casual of "Trek" fans have heard about the warp drive device that allows the various starships of the Federation to skip through space in the (relative) blink of a

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