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What is the gravitational field of a hole in an infinite perfect crystal?
Or equivalently and more interestingly: In the early universe when there was uniform H/He gas everywhere, gravitational field was close to 0 everywhere. Every test particle was pulled from all sides ...
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Einstein propulsion system
Will an extended body(cylinder) with asymmetric energy distribution across its H axis experience free-fall(geodesic)acceleration in free space(outside of any influences) in vacuum because of the time ...
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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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What is a good way to visualize the movement of an Alcubierre drive? [closed]
So I know that an AD works by pinching space-time in front of the ship and expanding it behind the ship.
A good way to describe gravity is having a blanket stretched out on all four corners and ...
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Is the Alcubierre drive consistent with conservation of energy? (Gravitational potential in particular)
Consider a ship in a circular orbit around a planet. It activates an Alcubierre drive. Do the physics of this drive allow the ship to reach a greater distance from the planet, and if so, where does ...
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Derivation for Alcubierre Drive
Is there any online derivation for the Alcubierre Drive? I have looked at several papers and none of them actually derive the equations. They simply point them out. Particularly, I would like a ...
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"Warp-drive" thought experiment
Why wouldn't this "warp-drive" work? Assuming we can build a flywheel that can survive near light speed and have an onboard power storage or beamed energy that can spin it up to that speed and back ...
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Can the Alcubierre Drive be explained by Gravitoelectromagnetism? [closed]
Even though there is no experimental evidence, that the Alcubierre drive works. The Einstein field equations permit this solution. For Gravitoelectromagnetism there are hints and ongoing efforts to ...
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Alcubierre warp bubble effect on gravity and space
I read the question Faster-than-light communication using Alcubierre warp drive metric around a single qubit?, and these questions came to mind:
What kind of impact would an Alcubierre warp bubble ...
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Relationship between Alcubierre drive space-time evolution and speed of gravity
The top rated answer to this question about the Alcubierre drive asserts, "spacetime can dynamically evolve in a way which apparently violates special relativity," but according to the Wikipedia ...
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