1. Miguel Alcubierre Moya was born on March 28,1964 and is a Mexican theoretical physicist.
11 Facts About Miguel Alcubierre
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Alcubierre is known for the proposed Alcubierre drive, a speculative warp drive by which a spacecraft could achieve faster-than-light travel.
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Miguel Alcubierre has three younger siblings, among them is historian Beatriz Miguel Alcubierre Moya.
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From elementary throughout high school, Miguel Alcubierre attended Colegio Ciudad de Mexico.
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At the age of 15, after having read Patrick Moore and David Hardy's Challenge of the Stars, Miguel Alcubierre decided that he wanted to become an astronomer.
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Miguel Alcubierre knew that to achieve this he needed to study physics first.
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Miguel Alcubierre obtained a Licentiate degree in physics in 1988 and a MSc degree in theoretical physics in 1990, both at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
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On June 11,2012, Miguel Alcubierre was appointed Director of the Nuclear Sciences Institute at UNAM.
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Miguel Alcubierre is best known for the proposal of "The Warp Drive: Hyper-fast travel within general relativity" that was published in the science journal Classical and Quantum Gravity.
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Miguel Alcubierre made a special appearance on the TV productions How William Shatner Changed the World and Michio Kaku's Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible, in which his warp bubble theory was discussed.
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Miguel Alcubierre has been invited twice to interviews on radio station Radio Educacion XEEP, first on February 18,2011, and later on March 4,2011, on the technology-related talk show Interfase, where he explained his views on the current state of scientific and technology research in Mexico, and gave a brief introduction to his warp drive model and how it came to be.