Linearized warp drive and the energy conditions
| dc.creator | Lobo, Francisco S. N. | |
| dc.creator | Visser, Matt | |
| dc.date | 2004-12-14 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:29:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:29:16Z | |
| dc.description | ''Warp drive'' spacetimes are useful as ''gedanken-experiments'' and as a theoretician's probe of the foundations of general relativity. Applying linearized gravity to the weak-field warp drive, i.e., for non-relativistic warp-bubble velocities, we find that the occurrence of energy condition violations in this class of spacetimes is generic to the form of the geometry under consideration and is not simply a side-effect of the ''superluminal'' properties. Using the linearized construction it is now possible to compare the warp field energy with the mass-energy of the spaceship, and applying the ''volume integral quantifier'', extremely stringent conditions on the warp drive spacetime are found. | |
| dc.description | 6 pages, contribution to the proceedings of the Spanish Relativity Meeting-2004 (Miraflores de la Sierra, Madrid, September 2004) | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0412065 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0412065 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/35148 | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.title | Linearized warp drive and the energy conditions | |
| dc.type | text |