What about the effects on the human body during acceleration/deceleration?
Should be zero. You are “in” the bubble. The bubble is what is in motion. Your local bubbble-space/time reference wouldn’t change.
There isn't any. You're warping spacetime, not moving through it. From the perspective of the central pod, you're not moving.
The spaceship isn't traveling near the speed of light. It's traveling a normal spaceship speed. It's just warping space in front of it. So that instead of going A-B-C-D-E. It's just going A-E.
It's like bending the earth so that New York City is suddenly next to Nashville. You can go from Music Row to Broadway and Back in an hour, without ever going over 60.
Theoretically the vessel would not be moving any faster, but the effects on humans from passing into warped space would have to be studied. Warped humans??
The beauty of it is that for the vehicle inside the warp there is very little (if any) acceleration or deceleration. The vehicle itself is moving at much slower speeds within the warp bubble while space itself is moved around it. In theory the vehicle could remain stationary.
“What’s the matter Colonel Sanders? Are you chicken?”
Inertial dampening takes care of this - hello??!!
8^)
Actually there would be no perceptible acceleration within an Alcubierre bubble. The bubble is accelerated, but within the bubble there would be no perceptible movement.
>>What about the effects on the human body during acceleration/deceleration?<<
Only a problem if they go to plaid.