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A comment on DIA Study: Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and Manipulation of Extra Dimensions (2010). Parent comment

Re:DIA Study: Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and Manipulation of E... by SubiculumCode on Monday July 09, 2018 @08:19PM (#17494483)
Any progress on that idea (Alcubierre drive)? Always seems the most interesting. I do a Google Scholar search, but I don't know the physics journals, so its hard for me to know legit from crank abuse, without laboriously checking each result for journal impact factors.
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Re:DIA Study: Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and Manipulation of E... by TheOtherHobbes on Monday July 09, 2018 @08:51PM (#17494622)
The debate continues. E.g.

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/isrn/2013/482734/

I suspect using GR to design a warp drive is like using a spoon to build a freeway. Without a theory of quantum gravity - which appears to mean not just a theory of quantised space time, but also of the non-locality and complex distributed relationships that haunt QM - you're probably not going to get very far.

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