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What is a warp drive? Are they scientifically possible? How does the Alcubierre drive work? That's what we talk about today.

The paper has now been published here:

https://iopscience.iop.org/art....icle/10.1088/1361-63

An open-access version is here:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.06824.pdf

You can find more information about the authors' work here:

https://appliedphysics.org

When I talk about energy conservation around 7 mins, I am NOT referring to the conservation of the stress-energy-tensor. This is conservation is always fulfilled if Einstein's field equations are fulfilled by way of the (contracted) Bianchi identities. I am talking about the conservation of the four-momentum (the integrated quantity) that is associated with the warp-drive bubble. In an asymptotically flat space-time, it should be conserved. If the bubble accelerates, it isn't. (As you'd expect.)

#physics #space #science

0:00 Intro and Motivation
0:46 What is a Warp Drive?
2:47 The Alcubierre Drive
3:54 General Relativity Background
6:09 The Problem with the Alcubierre Drive
7:26 New Paper
9:37 What the new paper may be good for