To the suppression of long-wavelength vacuum modes, i.e., waves too long to fitĬreate a thin region containing a small bit of negative energy. According to quantum field theory, in the gap between two groundedĬonducting (preferably superconducting) plates the energy becomes negative due Small amount of negative energy by using the Casimir effect. Our present technology, we can perhaps create a thin spatial region containing a Soliton would require a truly enormous quantity of negative Perhaps the most serious problem is that the construction of an Alcubierre Warp ThereĪre also problems with Hawking radiation bombardment and with stress-energyīuildup that we will not discuss here. Passengers to see what's passing by outside or is looming straight ahead. Impossible for the crew to exercise speed control and steering or even for the While the drive is in operation, it is not possible to communicateīetween the interior passenger-plus-crew area and the exterior of the "warp The mechanism is the same one that expands space itself in the generalįor those of us who are would-be users, the Space warp and compensating by expanding the space in the rear. Superluminal) speed by collapsing the space in the front of the propagating The Alcubierre soliton moves forward at a pre-determined (possibly Is an example of a soliton moving through space-time itself. Particular, the Alcubierre Warp Drive, first published in 1994 and described two years later in this column in the November-1996 Phenomenon peculiar to hydrodynamics, but, as it turns out, they also appear in Packet that maintains its shape while it propagates forward at a constant Was later able to reproduce the phenomenon he had observed in a Its height gradually diminished,Īnd after a chase of one or two miles I lost it in the windings of the Long and a foot to a foot and a half in height. Iįollowed it on horseback, and overtook it still rolling on at a rate of someĮight or nine miles an hour, preserving its original figure some thirty feet The channel apparently without change of form or diminution of speed. Rounded, smooth and well-defined heap of water, which continued its course along Vessel in a state of violent agitation, then suddenly leaving it behind, rolledįorward with great velocity, assuming the form of a large solitary elevation, a The channel which it had put in motion it accumulated round the prow of the Observing the motion of a boat which was rapidly drawn along a narrow channel byĪ pair of horses, when the boat suddenly stopped - not so the mass of water in Young Scottish engineer John Scott Russell (1808-1882) was conductingĮxperiments on the most efficient hull design for canal boats when he made a No part may be reproduced in any form without the Published in the November-December-2020 issue of Analog Science Fiction & FactĪnd is copyrighted ©2020 by John G. General relativity, ADM formulation, Alcuiberre drive, Lentz drive Keywords: soliton, space drive, warp drive, The Lentz Soliton FTL Drive Analog Science