Warp drive pioneer and former NASA warp drive specialist Dr. Harold G “Sonny” White has reported the successful manifestation of an actual, real-world “Warp Bubble.” And, according to White, this first of its kind breakthrough by his Limitless Space Institute (LSI) team sets a new starting point for those trying to manufacture a full-sized, warp-capable spacecraft.

“To be clear, our finding is not a warp bubble analog, it is a real, albeit humble and tiny, warp bubble,” White told The Debrief, quickly dispensing with the notion that this is anything other than the creation of an actual, real-world warp bubble. “Hence the significance.”

Bleedin’ ‘eck!!!

thedebrief.org/darpa-funded-researchers-accidentally-create-the-worlds-first-warp-bubble

Very interesting.

Huge if true but I’ll wait for the journal article and response

Spiny Norman said:

Warp drive pioneer and former NASA warp drive specialist Dr. Harold G “Sonny” White has reported the successful manifestation of an actual, real-world “Warp Bubble.” And, according to White, this first of its kind breakthrough by his Limitless Space Institute (LSI) team sets a new starting point for those trying to manufacture a full-sized, warp-capable spacecraft.

“To be clear, our finding is not a warp bubble analog, it is a real, albeit humble and tiny, warp bubble,” White told The Debrief, quickly dispensing with the notion that this is anything other than the creation of an actual, real-world warp bubble. “Hence the significance.”

Bleedin’ ‘eck!!!

thedebrief.org/darpa-funded-researchers-accidentally-create-the-worlds-first-warp-bubble

I don’t believe it.

Harold “Sonny” White is well known as NASA’s resident nutcase and “Warp Drive” shyster.

Remember this image from a few years ago, alongside articles making claims that NASA was close to inventing Warp Drive? This was the same guy making those claims, and I remember him being roundly lambasted and discredited at the time by various other scientists whilst the non-scientific media reported it as being credible (because “he works for NASA, dont”-ya-know”!)

Here is a link to the new paper, for anyone who is interested.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09484-z
Worldline numerics applied to custom Casimir geometry generates unanticipated intersection with Alcubierre warp metric

Criticism of the paper:

“And then it gets shady. “Where’s my warp bubble?” They didn’t make one. In fact, they didn’t calculate one, either. All they did was show that the three-dimensional energy density generated by this cavity displayed some qualitative correlations with the energy density field required by the Alcubierre drive. They don’t match in a quantitative sense; they were not generated experimentally, but only calculated numerically; and most importantly, they are restricted to microscopic scales and extremely low energy densities. There’s a lot of speculation and conjecture, and all of it is unproven.

“That isn’t to say this might not be an interesting idea that might someday pan out. But the most generous thing I can say about it is this: it isn’t fully baked. The most worrisome part, as a scientist familiar with Dr. White’s grandiose claims surrounding physics-violating engines in the past, is that he’s making new grand claims without adequate supporting evidence. He’s going to be looking at tiny, low-power systems and attempting to make measurements right at the limit of what his equipment will be able to detect. And, in the very recent past, he has fooled himself (and many others) into believing a novel effect was present when, in fact, it was not. An error, where his team failed to account for the magnetic and electric fields generated by the wires powering his previous apparatus, was all he wound up measuring.”

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/no-warp-bubble/
I wrote the book on warp drive. No, we didn’t accidentally create a warp bubble.

esselte said:

Criticism of the paper:

“And then it gets shady. “Where’s my warp bubble?” They didn’t make one. In fact, they didn’t calculate one, either. All they did was show that the three-dimensional energy density generated by this cavity displayed some qualitative correlations with the energy density field required by the Alcubierre drive. They don’t match in a quantitative sense; they were not generated experimentally, but only calculated numerically; and most importantly, they are restricted to microscopic scales and extremely low energy densities. There’s a lot of speculation and conjecture, and all of it is unproven.

“That isn’t to say this might not be an interesting idea that might someday pan out. But the most generous thing I can say about it is this: it isn’t fully baked. The most worrisome part, as a scientist familiar with Dr. White’s grandiose claims surrounding physics-violating engines in the past, is that he’s making new grand claims without adequate supporting evidence. He’s going to be looking at tiny, low-power systems and attempting to make measurements right at the limit of what his equipment will be able to detect. And, in the very recent past, he has fooled himself (and many others) into believing a novel effect was present when, in fact, it was not. An error, where his team failed to account for the magnetic and electric fields generated by the wires powering his previous apparatus, was all he wound up measuring.”

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/no-warp-bubble/
I wrote the book on warp drive. No, we didn’t accidentally create a warp bubble.

Interesting. Well I hope this one turns out to be the real thing.

My favourite astrophysicist (what, doesn’t everyone have one?) debunked this.

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/no-warp-bubble/

He also debunked the touching-the-sun thing.

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/parker-solar-probe-touch-sun/

Maybe not “debunked” as much as “dove deeper into the headlines”.

Divine Angel said:

My favourite astrophysicist (what, doesn’t everyone have one?) debunked this.

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/no-warp-bubble/

He also debunked the touching-the-sun thing.

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/parker-solar-probe-touch-sun/

Maybe not “debunked” as much as “dove deeper into the headlines”.

Ta for that DA, I’ll read it after breakfast (only just got up).