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> the alcubierre drive requires things like external negative energy https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/star-treks-warp-drive-leads-to-new-physics/ htt

• robbedpeter 5y ago
  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.
  • qubex 5y ago
    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.