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We construct a kinematical analogue of superluminal travel in the ``warped'' space-times curved by gravitation, in the form of ``super-phononic'' travel in the effective space-times of perfect nonrelativistic fluids. These warp-field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-17 Uwe R. Fischer , Matt Visser

The Alcubierre warp drive allows a spaceship to travel at an arbitrarily large global velocity by deforming the spacetime in a bubble around the spaceship. Little is known about the interactions between massive particles and the Alcubierre…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Brendan McMonigal , Geraint F. Lewis , Philip O'Byrne

In present work we examine the implications on both, space-time measures and causal structure, of a generalization of the local causality postulate by asserting its validity to all motion regimes, the subluminal and superluminal ones. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-11 Benjamín Calvo-Mozo

We develop a framework that facilitates the study of the causal structure of spacetimes with a causally preferred foliation. Such spacetimes may arise as solutions of Lorentz-violating theories, e.g. Horava gravity. Our framework allows us…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-03 Jishnu Bhattacharyya , Mattia Colombo , Thomas P. Sotiriou

We investigate the dynamical interaction of galactic warps with the surrounding dark matter halo, using analytic perturbation theory. A precessing warp induces a density wake in the collisionless dark matter, which acts back on the original…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Robert W. Nelson , Scott Tremaine

Over the last decade, there has been a respectable level of scientific interest regarding the concept of a warp drive. This is a hypothetical propulsion device that could theoretically circumvent the traditional limitations of special…

Popular Physics · Physics 2008-07-15 Richard K Obousy , Gerald Cleaver

The introduction of coordinates representing the points of view of various observers results in the possibility of horizons when acceleration and gravitation are included. A horizon is a surface of possible light beams in a region of space…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-06-26 James Lindesay

Reasonable spacetimes are non-compact and of dimension larger than two. We show that these spacetimes are globally hyperbolic if and only if the causal diamonds are compact. That is, there is no need to impose the causality condition, as it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-17 R. A. Hounnonkpe , E. Minguzzi

We present some of the recent results and open questions on the causality problem in General Relativity. The concept of singularity is intimately connected with future trapped surface and inner event horizon formation. We offer a brief…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-27 E. M. Howard

We review results on the dynamics of warped gaseous discs. We consider tidal perturbation of a Keplerian disc by a companion star orbiting in a plane inclined to the disc. The perturbation induces the precession of the disc, and thus of any…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Terquem , J. Papaloizou , R. Nelson

Causal systems describe the localizability of relativistic quantum systems complying with the principles of special relativity and elementary causality. At their classification we restrict ourselves to real mass and finite spinor systems.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Domenico P. L. Castrigiano

Causal structure of the brane universe with respect to null geodesics in the bulk spacetime is studied. It is pointed out that apparent causality violation is possible for the brane universe which contains matter energy. It is also shown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hideki Ishihara

Despite originating in science fiction, warp drives have a concrete description in general relativity, with Alcubierre first proposing a spacetime metric that supported faster-than-light travel. Whilst there are numerous practical barriers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-02 Katy Clough , Tim Dietrich , Sebastian Khan

In present work the author presents a new set of spacetime measures for both, subluminal and superluminal motion regimes, which do not diverge for the speed of light in the former case and each regime has its own light-like cone which…

General Physics · Physics 2013-08-22 Benjamín Calvo-Mozo

A major issue in general relativity and blackhole physics today is to determine the conditions when the spacetime singularities forming as end-states of gravitational collapse are visible to external observers, and when these are hidden…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-21 Koushiki , Pankaj S. Joshi

Hydrodynamic surface waves propagating on a moving background flow experience an effective curved space-time. We discuss experiments with gravity waves and capillary-gravity waves in which we study hydrodynamic black/white-hole horizons and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-01-21 J. Chaline , G. Jannes , P. Maïssa , G. Rousseaux

Presented are toy-models for sub-luminal and super-luminal warp-drives in 3+1 dimensions. The models are constructed in a chimeric manner - as different bulk space-times separated by thin membranes. The membranes contain perfect-fluid-like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-29 Greg Huey

Ori and Soen have proposed a spacetime which has closed causal curves on the boundary of a region of normal causality, all within a region where the weak energy condition (positive energy density) is satisfied. I analyze the causal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Ken D. Olum

We demonstrate that in metals, both normal and superconducting, orbital currents present in the ground state when time reversal symmetry (TRS) is broken, generate spin chirality. Nonzero chirality can emerge in the absence of any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Archisman Panigrahi , Vladislav Poliakov , Zhiyu Dong , Leonid Levitov

Imitation learning enables high-fidelity, vision-based learning of policies within rich, photorealistic environments. However, such techniques often rely on traditional discrete-time neural models and face difficulties in generalizing to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Charles Vorbach , Ramin Hasani , Alexander Amini , Mathias Lechner , Daniela Rus