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  • How much energy do you need in order to create a warp bubble?

  • I'm currently working with a colleague to create a scaled-down model of how this would work. Hopefully, we can set the ball rolling and get a warp drive developed.

  • @WhutsUrNaym If in 64 years the worlds best scientists haven't even begun to "set the ball rolling" towards Warp Drive, how do you expect yourself and 1 friend to? :)

    Were you given the necessary information from the future? :P

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  • Thanks a lot for posting this; the teachers at my school nick-name me 'warp-drive weirdo' because I am interested in science (and Star trek)

  • I found that the exact solution to Einstein's field equations for an electromagnetic radiation pulse yeilds warp drive spacetime without any exotic matter nor any energy condition violations just ordinary electromagnetic fields.

    watch?v=8HazOEqeae8

    You pulse the warp behind the ship and ride it while it overtakes the ship at speeds arbitrarily close to the speed of light.

  • You should skip to instant travel theories, those are not a waste of "time":)

  • We won't be able to do it because our understanding of 'current' is backwards. See my video on Ampere's Force Law. Warp technology has been hidden in plain sight.

  • Warp Bubble

  • if I am correct, I don't think tachyons could be used in either FTL travel/communication because they cannot carry information.

  • I ration this as a bubble within space. That bubble may be moving FTL, but the interior space would not. Thus, you can accelerate to near the speed of light 9.9999999... out of ten. You can actually use the system Star Trek did. There is a warp barrier at Warp 10 (Transwarp or Infinite), Warp 1 would be with no other acceleration, except for the bubble, and on and on etc. until the next limit is set by the fact that normal space within the bubble is limited by the speed of light. Interesting.

  • @galenct the gravity gradient would push you along. the higher the gradient, the faster you would go.

  • Nice I think this is the Alcubierre Metric right? I hope scientists use String Theory to manage to create a warp drive metric that would be praticable :)

  • They actually have, to some extent, calculations now show that 10^45 joules of energy is the new energy requirement when you take into account string theory which is much more reasonable

  • question, warp bubble 2 dimensional or 3 dim? Is it surrounding the ship like a sphere?

  • 5 dimensional. In the above image the x-y plane corresponds to 3+1D space and the z-axis corresponds to the extrinsic curvature. You can think of it as surrounding the ship - but it's just a mental handle.

  • is that what they call "subspace" ? -I mean the other two dimensions-

  • I'm seeing that...thing everywhere, but no demonstration of what it would be like if a spaceship used it. That would answer such things as "Would it be instantaneous like in Battlestar Galactica"?

  • No, it would not be instantaneous. You are thinking of a wormhole. Warp drives function at FLT speeds, so in theory you could make a round trip between two points faster than a beam of light.

  • Best estimate. How many years away until FTL?

  • It's impossible to say. Technological singularities could play a role.

  • i am working on an FTL drive already. To be honest, it's more like a Mobius Chair, but could be scaled up to be fitted into a starship...

  • @dmc31400 Ask Chronowerx!

  • Galactica's FTL was tachyon teleportation.

  • interesting, so you would not be moving at all, but still moving faster than the speed of light without violating general relativity, does anyone know the speeds it might reach?

  • The theoretical maximum limit that could be obtained via this principal could be as high as 10E32 times light speed. This would, however, require the mass energy content of approximately one trillion trillion trillion universes.

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