The Alcubierre Warp Drive in Higher Dimensional Spacetime
Abstract
The canonical form of the Alcubierre warp drive metric is considered to gain insight into the mathematical mechanism triggering the effect. A parallel with the Chung-Freese spacetime metric is drawn to demonstrate that the spacetime expansion boost can be considered a 3 + 1 on-brane simplification for higher dimensional geometric effects. The implications for baryonic matter of higher dimensional spacetime, in conjunction with the Alcubierre metric, are used to illustrate an equation of state for dark energy. Finally, this combined model will then be used to outline a theoretical framework for negative pressure (an alternative to negative energy) and a conceptual lab experiment is described.
- Publication:
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Space Technology and Applications International Forum - STAIF 2006
- Pub Date:
- January 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.2169323
- Bibcode:
- 2006AIPC..813.1382W
- Keywords:
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- 04.20.Gz;
- 04.50.+h;
- 95.36.+x;
- Spacetime topology causal structure spinor structure;
- Gravity in more than four dimensions Kaluza-Klein theory unified field theories;
- alternative theories of gravity;
- Dark energy