I totally buy all your comments about the warp drive (although having to go there first at less than warp drive is not a stopper on the technology) are spot on.
Latest new designs have reduced the energy needs to a Jupiter sized star… there’s still the need to get around the ‘high density energy theorem’?
I’ve tried to understand it, but the explanations have been unsatisfactory. And some papers claim to have ‘beat’ the requirements through ‘tweaking’ the shape of the bubble to vary in time.
But it is a physics problem and it’s theoretical. So the work on reducing the limiting parameters is extremely interesting, and can show off techniques that might be used elsewhere. We should make an X-prize for the first person to warp space faster than the speed of light. Could we use the gravity telescopes to measure the effect?
If it could be shown to be done (possible to build) I’d think they’d be worth a Nobel prize.
I totally buy all your comments about the warp drive (although having to go there first at less than warp drive is not a stopper on the technology) are spot on.
Latest new designs have reduced the energy needs to a Jupiter sized star… there’s still the need to get around the ‘high density energy theorem’?
I’ve tried to understand it, but the explanations have been unsatisfactory. And some papers claim to have ‘beat’ the requirements through ‘tweaking’ the shape of the bubble to vary in time.
But it is a physics problem and it’s theoretical. So the work on reducing the limiting parameters is extremely interesting, and can show off techniques that might be used elsewhere. We should make an X-prize for the first person to warp space faster than the speed of light. Could we use the gravity telescopes to measure the effect?
If it could be shown to be done (possible to build) I’d think they’d be worth a Nobel prize.