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I don't even get why Alcubierre drives are called like that - this very concept was described in great detail in a rare soviet space opera "Humans as gods" [1]
by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago
I don't even get why Alcubierre drives are called like that - this very concept was described in great detail in a rare soviet space opera "Humans as gods" [1] by Sergey Snegov written in 1960s.
[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humans_as_Gods https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humans_as_Gods
- FeepingCreature 5y agoComing up with the concept isn't particularly important. Alcubierre actually did the math.
- wiml 5y agoAlcubierre was the first person to connect this idea to a spacetime metric which obeys the equations of general relativity, with actual math.
- causi 5y agoIf you don't need the self-consistent mathematical theory behind it you should call it the Campbell warp drive, since John W. Campbell laid out the mechanism in 1957. Indeed, you could even call it the Brown warp drive, after the first use of the term "space-warp drive" by Fredric Brown in 1949.