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Re:Numerics applied to Casimir geometry generates intersecti... by T-A on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @02:32AM (#29469918)
> the alcubierre drive requires things like external negative energy

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/star-treks-warp-d...

Re:Numerics applied to Casimir geometry generates intersecti... by robbedpeter on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @04:08AM (#29470444)
Just need a tiny, stable black hole and some way of containing it. And then some way of scaling up the Casimir effect away from nanoscale electron microscopy.

Maybe you could create a collider scale facility and warp particles? From what I can understand, there's nothing wrong in principle, it's just that the conditions are currently absurdly beyond our reach.

Re:Numerics applied to Casimir geometry generates intersecti... by qubex on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @09:14AM (#29472638)
There’s lots of things wrong with the naivest formulation, and plenty still wrong with the most sophisticated constructions: for example, you cannot steer your ship, as that requires violating casualty locally, and also you’d blast your destination with a shower of infinitely blue-shifted radiation.