Re: Wormholes

From: mark@unicorn.com
Date: Fri Dec 05 1997 - 06:14:25 MST


Michael Lorrey [retroman@together.net] wrote:
>Exotic Matter far predates Sagan. It goes all the way back to the early
>50's. ALcubierre posited it for use in his warp drive concept...

Uh, unless I'm much mistaken Alcubierre wrote his paper in 1994 (give
or take a year or so). Unfortunately later research seems to show that
the largest sustainable warp is smaller than the size of a proton, so
it's not much help 8-(.

    Mark



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