Probably Premature, But Warp-Bubble, Anyone?

This is way over my head.

The actual report: Worldline numerics applied to custom Casimir geometry
generates unanticipated intersection with Alcubierre warp metric

https://link.springer.com/content/pd...52-021-09484-z

The summation: https://coffeeordie.com/alcubierre-w...21077666484224

Quote:

A Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-funded research project at NASA’s Johnson Space Center may have accidentally discovered how to build a warp drive engine. The scientists published their findings in July. Harold “Sonny” White, a NASA researcher at the Eagleworks Laboratory in Houston, Texas, published a research paper with his team in July about the “possible structure of the energy density present in a Casimir cavity.” According to the report, the Eagleworks team came across “a micro/nano-scale structure … that predicts negative energy density distribution that closely matches requirements for the Alcubierre metric.” In other words, White and his colleagues accidentally created a microscopic experiment while researching how energy distributes around wavelengths — a theory developed by Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir. The experiment resulted in enough theoretical energy to achieve “warp speed,” a concept theorized by Mexican mathematician and physicist Miguel Alcubierre.

I am in no way qualified to understand this, but it has created a stir on science-social media.

via International Skeptics Forum https://ift.tt/3dElpuZ