Warping Reality: The Alcubierre Drive and the Quest for FTL Travel
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Join us as we unpack the Alcubierre warp drive, a concept born in general relativity that lets a ship ride a bubble of flat space while spacetime itself moves. We'll trace how geometry could slash energy requirements, the thorny problem of exotic matter, and the practical hazards of deceleration and high-energy fronts. We discuss time-travel quirks, the chronology protection conjecture, and speculative links to dark matter/energy as negative mass. A rigorous, accessible tour of one of physics' most provocative ideas—and what it would take to make it real.
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