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• LeifCarrotson 2y ago
  https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.02709 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.02709 https://github.com/NerdsWithAttitudes/WarpFactory https://github.com/NerdsWithAttitudes/WarpFactory I'm impressed that they've removed the requirement for negative energy, but it's not quite ready to hand the drawings to your local machine shop to build one. It requires matter packed to an energy density on the order of 10^39 joules per cubic meter. According to [1], oil has a (chemical) energy density of 4.5x10^10 joules per cubic meter, purified uranium produces 1.5x10^15 J/m^3 in a fission reactor, and that same uranium in pure mass-to-energy conversion produces on the order of 10^21 J/m^3. Uranium has a density of 19x10^3 kg/m^3, and the nucleus of an atom or neutron star has a density on the order of 4x10^17...if you can build the entire ship out of pure neutrons, you're still coming up short by a factor of ~100. All that does suggest that it seems reasonable we'd be able to observe gravity waves from a long distance if a machine like that ever experienced a loss of compression. [1]: https://drexel.edu/~/media/Files/greatworks/pdf_sum10/WK8_Layton_EnergyDensities.ashx https://drexel.edu/~/media/Files/greatworks/pdf_sum10/WK8_La...
  • adamnew123456 2y ago
    > and the nucleus of an atom or neutron star has a density on the order of 4x10^17...if you can build the entire ship out of pure neutrons, you're still coming up short by a factor of ~100 Would you be getting into black hole territiry at that density?
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