• DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.85.064024
Corpus ID: 3993148

Alcubierre warp drive: On the matter of matter

@article{McMonigal2012AlcubierreWD,
  title={Alcubierre warp drive: On the matter of matter},
  author={B. McMonigal and G. Lewis and P. O'Byrne},
  journal={Physical Review D},
  year={2012},
  volume={85},
  pages={064024}
}

B. McMonigal, G. Lewis, P. O'Byrne

Published 2012

Physics

Physical Review D

The Alcubierre warp drive allows a spaceship to travel at an arbitrarily large global velocity by deforming the spacetime in a bubble around the spaceship. Little is known about the interactions between massive particles and the Alcubierre warp drive, or the effects of an accelerating or decelerating warp bubble. We examine geodesics representative of the paths of null and massive particles with a range of initial velocities from $\ensuremath{-}c$ to $c$ interacting with an Alcubierre warp… CONTINUE READING

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