Warp Drive With Zero Expansion
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-11-07 v3
Abstract
It is commonly believed that Alcubierre's warp drive works by contracting space in front of the warp bubble and expanding space behind it. We show that this expansion/contraction is but a marginal consequence of the choice made by Alcubierre, and explicitly construct a similar spacetime where no contraction/expansion occurs. Global and optical properties of warp drive spacetimes are also discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0110086,
title = {Warp Drive With Zero Expansion},
author = {Jose Natario},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0110086},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, 3 figures; typos corrected, references added