George Washington University and the Cu-faj television channel organized a symposium where scientists discussed the possibility of interstellar travel. During the symposium, scientists agreed that we will soon be able to reach distant stars, but confirmed the fact that the concept of "soon" has no meaning in the context of space.
The statement is based on the fact that the journey to the stars will be faster than the speed of light (300,000 km / s). This is the maximum speed we know, but far from sufficient to travel to the stars. Our closest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri, is 4.2 light years distant. There is an assumption that this problem can be solved with the help of the so-called "bending" of space-time, this will make it possible to travel in outer space with the same amount of time as traveling from one city to another on an ordinary plane.
One way is called "speed distortion", which suggests that we could move faster than the speed of light in space-time if we change its shape. NASA likened this mode of walking to a moving sidewalk: a person walking at a given speed will move faster if they walk on a simultaneously moving walkway (an example would be a person walking on a moving escalator). Another way to change the shape of spacetime is to collect a huge amount of energy - like all stars - to create a passage, or "wormhole", connecting two points that were once separated. Imagine that you want to get from one edge of the carpet to the other, but instead of taking the usual steps to the other end, you use a hook to pull the opposite end towards you, and then just step on it.
But this is all that science can explain in theory, but does not know how to confirm it in practice. These theories are not proven and controversial, science does not seek to explain them, and the technologies necessary to implement such a thing are not being developed.
Ralph Meknath, Chief Scientist of the Johns Hopkins Division of Space Research at the Applied Physics Laboratory, USA, decided to test the limits of the real world. He leads a team of scientists entrusted by NASA to send a spacecraft weighing about 700 kg, which is powered by nuclear generators, into interstellar space 150 billion kilometers from Earth. To cover such a huge distance, the spacecraft will need more than one light-year (63 Earth years), but this will test the limitations of modern technology.
NASA scientists are confident that greater distance will no longer be a problem for traveling to distant worlds, thanks to the "laser sail energy" developed by Henry M. Harris. According to the scientist, using his concept will reduce the travel time to Proxima Centauri from 400 centuries to just 40 years. The use of carbon materials that are lightweight and resistant to high temperatures will allow ships to be guided towards the stars using the energy of a giant laser. Harris believes that in this way a person can reach Jupiter's orbit within eight hours and at the same time at a speed ten times slower than the speed of light. Thus, it is clear that interstellar travel is not a myth, but quite feasible theories, but currently impossible, due to the lack of technologies for manufacturing such spaceships. The question remains: will it always be this way?
In terms of whether UFOs exist, or whether someone else is able to cover such great distances, Peter Starik, a physicist at Stanford University, believes that scientists are unofficially willing to show confidence in certain reports of UFOs as ships of living things. If UFOs are real, then this really confirms the fact that travel among the stars is possible. For the Earth, this will be possible in 100 thousand or millions of years, but some scientists believe so. If we look at the age of the universe, we see that the time it takes to achieve modern technology is no more than a moment. There is still a lot of time for the development of future technologies, despite the fact that for us, earthlings, thousands of years will pass in the world of space, it will still be the same moment!