Superluminal Travel Requires Negative Energies

DOI10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.3567zbMath0949.83008arXivgr-qc/9805003WikidataQ27350411 ScholiaQ27350411MaRDI QIDQ4492523

Ken D. Olum

Publication date: 16 July 2000

Published in: Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9805003

zbMATH Keywords

negative energy; faster-than-light travel; weak-energy-condition violation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83C40: Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions

83A05: Special relativity

83D05: Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories

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Cites Work

• The unphysical nature of `warp drive'
• The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
• Singularities and causality violation