User talk:Glubnuts

Alcubierre drive
I have reverted you again in the Alcubierre drive article. What you are trying to say is simply not found in the Finazzi et al. paper. Finazzi does not suggest that a technological fix might be possible, just the opposite, he states "This would prevent the use of a superluminal warp drive for any kind of practical purpose." I am not sure that you appreciate just how large these temperatures are; 1030 K according to Finazzi. These are temperatures not seen since early in the Big Bang. The temperature of the sun is less than 104 K, atomic nuclei cannot form above 109 K. At 1030 K it is not even possible for quarks to bind into protons and neutrons. Describing what would happen to a person in this environment as being fried is a very severe understatement. There is no technology that could possibly shield against this. It is also incorrect that Finazzi et al. limited their considerations to the Alcubierre metric, they would seem to intend their conclusions to apply to warp drives in general.

The only slight hope that Finazzi holds out is that if the idea of Quantum inequalities is incorrect the temperature can be brought down. But it is QI that has allowed the existence of the exotic matter needed to create a warp bubble in the first place so this is of little help without a completely new idea.

You are welcome to open a thread on the article talk page to see if other editors support you. I will be the first to admit my lack of expertise here, but you cannot say what you are trying to say on the basis of the Finazzi paper which does not agree with you at all. You need to find a published scientific paper which supports these statements before they can go in the article.  Sp in ni ng  Spark  12:10, 10 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I don't think you can be reading the same paper as is cited in the article. I have removed the exact quote which does not appear, but they do say something similar so the sense is retained.  I believe what you are reading is not a journal article, but an entry to an essay competion On the impossibility of superluminal travel: the warp drive lesson.  Unfortunately, this has previously been removed from the article references because of copyvio concerns.  Please do not reinsert it.  Sp in ni  ng  Spark  01:23, 11 July 2010 (UTC)