Actual Warp Drive Theory (was Re: Light may break its own speed limit)

> On Thu, 20 July 2000, Tony Christney wrote:

> They seem to know what was happening.

In the January 2000 (not March 2000 issue, as I erroneously reported earlier)
there is an interesting article on negative energy and warping space. They
suggest that with enough negative energy you COULD produce a space warp field
sort of like Star Trek. However, they also suggest that you would need some
sort of outside help to create the warp bubble (sort of like B5 jump gates)
and you wouldn't be able to turn, just move straight ahead. This has me
thinking about a few things for one of my own homegrown universes.

At any rate, the idea of travelling faster than light as viewed from our frame
of reference has been given some serious consideration for a while now. While
many scientists used to scoff at the idea, apparently those nasty black hole
things and the way they stretch our understanding of physics at the event
horizon has pulled scientists in interesting directions.

You can find the article on the Scientific American web site, but it costs $5
to download it...