The paper explores the possibility of simulating some features of warp drive‐driven spaceship flight by computational fluid dynamic techniques. Here, using fluid dynamic analogues, solutions of Einstein’s Equations of General Relativity (GR) that describe spacetime distortions and stresses caused by an accelerating vehicle are replaced by solutions of the Navier Stokes (NS) Equations of Fluid Dynamics that describe distortions and stresses within a fluid‐like zero‐point quantum vacuum. These NS solutions could not replicate all GR results, but they captured some important features of warp drive flight. In particular, they showed that ship‐generated repulsive warp fields which perturb the negative pressure zero‐point electromagnetic vacuum create zero‐point radiation pressure gradients that, swiftly “pull” and “push” field‐propelled ships, with relatively unlabored acceleration, from very low sublumiminal velocity to very high superluminal speed.
Fluid Dynamic Simulations of Warp Drive Flight Through Negative Pressure Zero‐Point Vacuum
SPACE TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL FORUM-STAIF 2007: 11th Conf Thermophys.Applic.in Micrograv.; 24th Symp Space Nucl.Pwr.Propulsion; 5th Conf Hum/Robotic Techn & Vision Space Explor.; 5th Symp Space Coloniz.; 4th Symp New Frontrs & Future Con ; 2007 ; Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA)
AIP Conference Proceedings ; 880 , 1 ; 1125-1131
2007-01-30
7 pages
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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