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To: Red Badger

Alcubierre drive

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The Alcubierre drive or Alcubierre warp drive (or Alcubierre metric, referring to metric tensor) is a speculative idea based on a solution of Einstein’s field equations in general relativity as proposed by theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre, by which a spacecraft could achieve faster-than-light travel if a configurable energy-density field lower than that of vacuum (that is, negative mass) could be created.


42 posted on 07/23/2015 12:03:43 PM PDT by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: ThomasMore

Testing shows using microwaves to propel a craft into space might work:

http://phys.org/news/2015-07-microwaves-propel-craft-space.html


46 posted on 07/23/2015 12:06:59 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: ThomasMore

That’s purely theoretical, we aren’t even sure if the science behind the proposal would work.


56 posted on 07/23/2015 12:28:27 PM PDT by Boogieman
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