Questions tagged [warp-drives]
warp drives are generic conceptual space travel mechanisms that try to work around physical limits in the speed of propagation of light imposed by special relativity. Usually they resort to speculative science (exotic matter), or phenomena that are not yet well understood or is hard to make validation experiments (non-eternal rotating black holes)
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Harold White's work on the Alcubierre warp drive
I've read a bit on Harold White's recent work. (A paper on Nasa's site) I haven't been able to find any comments by people claiming to know anything about the physics involved. Is this really serious? ...
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Exotic Matter -- What is it?
I have a conceptual understanding of some theoretical physics concepts, so without getting into the math, what is exotic matter?
I have read some articles that say it is anything not normal, while ...
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Warp drive with gravitational waves in the nonlinear regime
gravitational waves are strictly transversal (in the linear regime at least), also their amplitudes are tiny even for cosmic scale events like supernovas or binary black holes (at least far away, ...
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Faster-than-light communication using Alcubierre warp drive metric around a single qubit?
The Alcubierre warp drive metric has been criticized on the points of requiring a large amount of exotic matter with negative energy, and conditions deadly for human travellers inside the bubble. What ...
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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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Getting back out of an Alcubierre warp bubble
Does the theory on paper provide a way for hypothetical travelers to get back out of the bubble that has gotten them close to their distant destination by compressing all the space in front of them ...
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Alcubierre Drive - Clarification on relativistic effects
On the Wikipedia article on the Alcubierre drive, it says:
Since the ship is not moving within this bubble, but carried along as the region itself moves, conventional relativistic effects such as ...
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