Re: The (W)arp Drive , say Aye

Posted by paultrr on August 01, 2003 at 13:24:16:

In Reply to: Re: The (W)arp Drive , say Aye posted by sol on June 12, 2003 at 11:02:43:

Actually, one newer idea to surface in all this is that you do not actually need exotic energy(Negative energy) to achieve a warp effect. In essence, if zero point ideas are correct, then our vacuum is above actual zero to begin with. That being the case all you actually need is a localized vacuum state with less energy than the present one. The problem is Casimir effects achieve this on a very limited scale. They drop off by a rate close to 1/R^7th or better. So while a positive energy only solution exists, there still remains a problem on how to create such a state in a localized fashion.

One aspect we have been looking into is an engineered via EM means of what we have termed a warp conduit or waveguide. There are simular ideas being used for high density plasma containment. But we still lack some of what is needed to develope a working warp conduit. No one has actually ever tried to design a tunable em version of a waveguide at this level.

Our present prototype idea, with some of the explaination of what is needed and supporting theory and experiments, centers around a simple sub-light version of a warp drive. In fact, this idea is not at the present even geared to exceed C and is actually, if everything where to be built and combined together for a generator more proper as a lab bench experiment. If all goes well with the general idea an article outlining all this will appear in the October issue of the Journal of Advanced Propulsion Methods with a copy submitted to NASA for them to look over. But, at the present, while all the different ideas have experiments by others to support the ideas, no one has ever tried to combine all of these into one before. That's where most of us are actually unsure if it could be done. However, the reason we developed this idea was to actually answer the required energy problem head on, so to speak.

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