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Will this hypothetical circular singularity FTL travel warp drive work? [closed]

Not a physicist, but just wanted to know if this would work in theory: Since nothing can practically travel faster than the speed of light (for now until proven otherwise), the only way for ...
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When can information escape from a black hole through a warp bubble-like spacetime?

It is well known that nothing can escape a black hole, including gravitational radiation. Many questions have been asked here about this topic, such as: Can gravitational waves escape a black hole? ...
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Escaping from inside the event horizon [duplicate]

This is a hypothetical question. An Alcubierre Warp Drive can theoretically go any speed because space is moving and the ship is not. Could a ship equipped with this drive escape from inside an ...
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How would an Alcubierre warp bubble be affected by external gravitational fields (e.g. black holes)?

Consider a spaceship inside an Alcubierre warp bubble traveling in a straight trajectory. As it travels, it passes near a black hole (for the sake of argument, we'll say it's near the event horizon of ...
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Can Alcubierre Space Drive function in space time within event horizon of a Black Hole?

Alcubierre Drive compresses space in front and propagates as such but in a singularity where space is untraversable is propagation possible? If so can you prove it?
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How could we travel to the nearest supermassive Black hole?

I have just watched a trailer for the upcoming movie Interstellar and started to wonder about some physics involved. In the end of the trailer, they are obviously plunging into a Black hole hoping to ...
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Could a ship equipped with Alcubierre drive theoretically escape from a black hole?

Could a ship equipped with Alcubierre drive theoretically escape from a black hole? Also, could it reach parts of the universe that are receding faster than the speed of light from us?
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