Hyper-Fast Positive Energy Warp Drives · HackerPapers discussions

Hyper-Fast Positive Energy Warp Drives — mentioned by MattPalmer1086

Sun, 23 Jun 2024 13:01:36 GMT

There are now positive energy soliton solutions to the warp drive[1] Still not exactly practical, but one less fundamental problem to solve. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.00652

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Hyper-Fast Positive Energy Warp Drives — mentioned by ctoth

Fri, 06 Oct 2023 17:01:45 GMT

More recently we have the work of Erik Lentz to make these viable with positive energy (a bunch of it AFAIR) using Solitons[0]. The funny thing is there's actually a TNG episode, New Ground, where the crew test a Soliton wave for warp propulsion. [0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.00652

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Hyper-Fast Positive Energy Warp Drives — mentioned by ghkbrew

Sat, 05 Nov 2022 18:50:02 GMT

This abstract says only that they've reduced the need for exotic matter by some orders of magnitude. Presumably it's still required. However, there were some recent papers describing warp drive geometries with only positive mass. Ex: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.00652

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