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Perimeter? As in -outside- the warp bubble? So the dust is now moving at beyond light speed but without the protective effects of time inside the bubble? We k

• serverholic 5y ago
  What I said is about the limit of my knowledge unfortunately. However here’s the paper from the University of Sidney that goes into much greater detail. pdf warning https://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.5708v1.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.5708v1.pdf From the paper: > These results suggest that any ship using an Alcu- bierre warp drive carrying people would need shielding to protect them from potential dangerously blueshifted particles during the journey, and any people at the des- tination would be gamma ray and high energy particle blasted into oblivion due to the extreme blueshifts for P+ region particles.
• handol 5y ago
  > We know what happens to matter at those speeds, it becomes infinitely "heavy" and would experience time in relative light-years (I mean time-to-travel at light speeds) no? I don't think we do know what happens. Relativistic mass approaches infinity at exactly c. Beyond c we obviously have no data, but if we just apply the same equations the relativistic mass would drop back to a finite value. A finite complex value.