Warp Drives are in principal possible The key idea is to contract space-time in front of you and to expand it behind The Alcubierre Metric does just this, and is consistent with Einstein's Theory of General Relativitypic.twitter.com/vQuzMH6Him
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The Alcubierre metric does however have its difficulties, as it admits a negative (!) energy density However, an Alcubierre-warp drive could still be realized by exploiting certain quantum effects (e.g. Casimir Effect) whose stress-energy tensors also admit negative energiespic.twitter.com/uu3oAFYSEu
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Replying to @InertialObservr
Unfortunately the Casimir Effect only exhibits a *lower* but still positive energy density as compared to its surroundings. Not negative energy which is still unobserved.
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Replying to @PrimitiveVR
in the context of quantum field theory the casimir effect does admit a negative energy density .. see equation (3) and thereabout https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9510071.pdf …
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Replying to @InertialObservr
Disagree, unless I'm understanding this wrong, but the conditions described in the paper are flat space-time and massless scalar field which are only achieved under "exotic" scenarios and to my knowledge have never been observed
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Replying to @PrimitiveVR
the point i was making isn't that they showed this in a qft on a curved spacetime, but that the classical casimir effect admits a negative energy density .. knowing how this generalizes to a curved manifold would require quantum gravity
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Replying to @InertialObservr @PrimitiveVR
So maybe a more correct sentence would be "Warp Drives are not impossible in current understanding of nature"
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That’s what it means for something to be in principle possible
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