Inklings: a tumblelog

New Scientist: Take a Leap into Hyperspace

Can the hyperdrive really get off the ground? The answer to that question hinges on the work of a little-known German physicist. Burkhard Heim began to explore the hyperdrive propulsion concept in the 1950s as a spin-off from his attempts to heal the biggest divide in physics: the rift between quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general theory of relativity.