The director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Michael Kratsios, declared that the US currently has the ability to ‘manipulate time and space‘ and ‘leave distance annihilated.’

Kratsios made the bold statement on Monday during the Endless Frontiers Retreat, a scientific conference in Texas focused on promoting US technological innovations to maintain global competitiveness.

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Kratsios actually referenced this again at the end of his speech, saying that Americans will soon have the choice to ‘craft new technologies and give themselves to scientific discoveries that will bend time and space.’

Kratsios did not clarify his points, but they may have been a hyperbolic reference to recent breakthroughs in AI and quantum computing.

Currently, there is no device publicly known that can literally ‘manipulate time and space’ or make distance irrelevant.

President Donald Trump has not been shy about its focus on Earth-shattering innovations, especially when it comes to space and technology.

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The White House also has a very public relationship with Elon Musk, whose commercial spaceflight company SpaceX has become a key player in NASA’s ongoing missions and has its sights set on delivering astronauts to Mars within the next five years.

However, the comments that the US already has the ability to manipulate time and space stoked the flames of government conspiracy theorists online.

‘Did he just say the quiet bit out loud?’ one person on X asked.

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‘We have a weapon that no one has a clue what it is. And this is the most powerful weapon in the world, which is more powerful than anyone even close,’ Trump claimed.

DailyMail.com has reached out to the White House for comment.

Kratsios added that Americans are still seeking to explore ‘endless frontiers’ and that the country will soon have the technological inventions on hand to reach them.

‘Our technologies, and what we do with them, will be the tools with which we will make the destiny of our country manifest in this century,’ Kratsios said.

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The speech by Trump’s science policy director is just the latest in a growing pile of ‘evidence’ some say may prove there’s more going on in Washington and in the US military than the public knows about.

Recently, scientists told DailyMail.com that time travel is possible – and people have already done it.

In 1915, Albert Einstein presented his theory of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin and proved that time travel is possible.

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Dr Alasdair Richmond, a philosopher and time travel expert from the University of Edinburgh, told DailyMail.com: ‘Einstein teaches us that how fast time passes in your surroundings varies with your velocity.’

Essentially, this means the faster you travel, the slower you experience time.

So, if you’re on a plane or train, you will be experiencing time slower than anyone standing still and experiments have shown this is true.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station travel around the Earth at speeds close to 17,500 mph, fast enough to experience slight time travel.

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If Kratsios was referring to some sort of faster-than-light travel (also known as warp speed), well, scientists have recently proven that this was possible too.

A 2024 study published in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity, suggested that real-life warp drive is not just a far-fetched concept of science-fiction after all.

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They proposed creating a ‘warp bubble’ around a spaceship using a shell of regular matter, like dense particles or dark matter, to compress spacetime in front of the ship and expand it behind.

This bubble would let the ship travel faster than light without breaking the laws of physics, and crucially, it doesn’t need exotic ‘negative energy’ that past theories required.

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