Formation of a Warp Bubble

This matlab generated program illustrates a modified Alcubierre metric which includes an 'engine parameter'. This parameter simulates the gradual generation of a warp bubble.

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Science & Technology

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• Space
• warp
• drive
• Alcubierre
• obousy
• theoretical
• physics
• interstellar
• travel

[platoon1993]

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

[robousy]

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.

[jude53]

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?

[robousy]

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.

[geramaquinista]

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

[tjbayliss]

@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

[WhutsUrNaym]

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.

[magnatron2010]

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)

[WaiteDavidMSPhysics]

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.

[io1011001]

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

[io1011001]

@dmc31400 Ask Chronowerx!

[themanyone]

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.