The warp drive and antigravity
| dc.creator | Ellis, Homer G. | |
| dc.date | 2004-11-19 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:29:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:29:11Z | |
| dc.description | The warp drive envisioned by Alcubierre that can move a spaceship faster than light can, with modification, levitate it as if it were lighter than light, even allow it to go below a black hole's horizon and return unscathed. Wormhole-like versions of the author's `drainhole' (1973) might provide the drive, in the form of a by-pass of the spaceship composed of a multitude of tiny topological tunnels. The by-pass would divert the gravitational `ether' into a sink covering part of the spaceship's hull, connected by the tunnels to a source covering the remainder of the hull, to produce an ether flow like that of a river that disappears underground only to spring forth at a point downstream. This diversion would effectively shield the spaceship from external gravity. | |
| dc.description | 6 pages, AMSTeX, 1 Encapsulated PostScript figure | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0411096 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0411096 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/35119 | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.title | The warp drive and antigravity | |
| dc.type | text |