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Could we be seeing warp drive signatures?
by mrfusion 5y ago
Could we be seeing warp drive signatures?
- pwned1 5y agoWhy would anyone downvote this? I love this type of out of the box thinking.
- queuebert 5y agoAliens are trolling us by doing burnouts near our planet.
- wussboy 5y ago/r/idiotsinspaceships
- dredmorbius 5y ago/r/alienworldproblems
- foo92691 5y agoSo far all of the signals observed by LIGO are from sources that we expected would exist. The most exciting thing would be to observe an unexpected signal.
- baq 5y agodid you model how an alcubierre drive would look like on the waveform? (only half joking ;))
- aardvark179 5y agoThe original solution field equation is for a constant speed drive, which I believe does not emit any gravitational waves. I’m not sure how much work has been done on the formation of the bubble and what effects that would produce, or indeed how a ship could change its heading, which are events that I think should produce gravity waves.
- drdeca 5y agoWikipedia lists S200114f (on page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gravitational_wave_observations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gravitational_wave_o...) in a way that to me makes it sound like there’s substantial uncertainty about the cause of it; is that maybe because Wikipedia is out of date and people figured out the (not unusual) cause since, or is maybe just wrong, or maybe I misunderstand what you mean, or I misunderstood what the people who labeled the entry for it on Wikipedia meant?
- jiggawatts 5y agoA simple "energy budget" analysis would immediately reveal that current detectors have no hope of detecting any artificial gravity wave sources. What they're picking up now is events with titanic energies, things like black holes merging and neutron stars colliding. These are many, many of orders of magnitude more energetic than even supernovae!