The unphysical nature of `warp drive'

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/7/011zbMath0900.53023arXivgr-qc/9702026WikidataQ56069449 ScholiaQ56069449MaRDI QIDQ4348760

L. H. Ford, Michael J. Pfenning

Publication date: 25 November 1997

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9702026

zbMATH Keywords

negative energy densities; warp drive metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53Z05: Applications of differential geometry to physics

83C47: Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory

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