The 1919 Eddington eclipse observation
🎓 Academic researchMeasured starlight bending near the Sun, confirming general relativity’s prediction that mass bends spacetime.
VerdictSpace can bend — but it takes a stellar-scale mass.
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Spatial Manipulation
Altering the structure, dimensions or distance of space
Reality checkNo one can alter space; but ‘space can be bent’ is a physical fact confirmed by the 1919 eclipse, and NASA has formally studied warp drive.
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NASA Eagleworks warp & EmDrive research
🏛️ Official recordUsed an interferometer to look for tiny spacetime distortion from an Alcubierre ‘warp bubble’, and tested the propellantless EmDrive.
VerdictNo credible signal detected.
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Traversable-wormhole theory (Morris–Thorne)
🎓 Academic researchAt Sagan’s request for his novel ‘Contact’, Thorne showed traversable wormholes aren’t forbidden by GR but need ‘negative energy’ to hold open.
VerdictPure theory, no observation.
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