From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Jun 23 1999 - 02:58:02 MDT
"Michael S. Lorrey" <mike@lorrey.com> writes:
> So how would you generate these warp bubbles with no mass in them and
> propel them at FTL speeds? You will need some sort of warp drive inside
> the bubble, unless they are being generated by a transmitter, pumping
> them out like smoke rings. Would transmitted bubbles be a coherently
> pulsed collimated stream or would they disperse in a wide probablistic
> pattern? How would we here on earth receive bubbles transmitted by other
> worlds?
One paper that might answer some of your questions is
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/9906050
On the (im)possibility of warp bubbles
Authors: Chris Van Den Broeck
Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures; intended as a Comment for Class. Quantum Grav
Report-no: KUL-TF-99/22
I discuss the objections raised by several authors against
Alcubierre's warp drive geometry. I argue that all of these
objections may, in principle, be overcome, although important
practical difficulties remain.
> We obviously need some of this exotic matter to do so, so did he
> publish any ideas on how to make this exotic matter?
Nobody really knows how to make exotic matter, it is just something
that is possible in the equations. The closest thing is quantum
effects like the Casimir effect.
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