06-18-2013, 08:40 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-25-2013, 07:17 PM by iancampbell.)
I'd like to have someone with better physics knowledge than me (which isn't difficult; my qualifications have thirty years of rust on them and were in biochemistry in the first place) to clear something up. It's not really relevant to OA, because it is to do with superluminal (Alcubierre and now White) warp drives. Apologies for that.
From what I've read, the drive needs to build up really large amounts (Jupiter mass or thereabouts) of positive energy at the sides of the bubble, with a roughly equal amount of negative energy at the front and back. If that's the case, is there really a problem? Sure, handling extremely large amounts of energy is going to be necessary - but generating large amounts is not.
From what I've read, the drive needs to build up really large amounts (Jupiter mass or thereabouts) of positive energy at the sides of the bubble, with a roughly equal amount of negative energy at the front and back. If that's the case, is there really a problem? Sure, handling extremely large amounts of energy is going to be necessary - but generating large amounts is not.