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Re:Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light? by nimish on Sunday September 12, 2021 @02:28PM (#28503551)
They are only theoretically possible if you allow for negative mass and energy--not an engineering problem so much as a "need to find exotic matter"

Basically people ran the EFE "backwards" to see what matter distribution makes the wanted curvature. You get either negative mass-energy or the bubble doesn't travel ftl iirc.

Re:Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light? by kadoban on Sunday September 12, 2021 @02:37PM (#28503615)
Gp is talking about forward-only time travel though, you don't need anything exotic for that at all, just lots of energy and an efficient way to turn it into thrust.
Re:Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light? by xondono on Sunday September 12, 2021 @03:18PM (#28503989)
The Alcubierre drive “beats” the speed of light, for the effects described 0.7-0.9c are more than good enough (if slightly unpractical).

We can’t do that either for now, but is way easier on the feasibility scale.

Re:Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light? by lovegoblin on Sunday September 12, 2021 @03:57PM (#28504344)
> The Alcubierre drive “beats” the speed of light

The Alcubierre drive is only a thought experiment that requires "exotic matter" (aka fairy dust) to work.

Re:Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light? by baja_blast on Monday September 13, 2021 @01:26PM (#28514162)
Papers have been published that have found ways to create warp drives without the need for exotic matter: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.07125.pdf
Re:Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light? by xondono on Monday September 13, 2021 @09:37AM (#28511296)
I know, I was making reference to this

> They are only theoretically possible if you allow for negative mass and energy--not an engineering problem so much as a "need to find exotic matter"

Basically people ran the EFE "backwards" to see what matter distribution makes the wanted curvature. You get either negative mass-energy or the bubble doesn't travel ftl iirc.

Re:Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light? by xyzzyz on Sunday September 12, 2021 @06:46PM (#28505745)
No, for forward time travel you don’t need any sort of exotic matter. You just need a really fast rocket.