Warp Drives Could Generate Gravitational Waves – The paper is titled “What no one has seen before: gravitational waveforms from warp drive collapse.” The authors are Katy Clough, Tim Dietrich, and Sebastian Khan, physicists from institutions in the UK and Germany.
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From the article
>Will future humans use warp drives to explore the cosmos? We’re in no position to eliminate the possibility. But if our distant descendants ever do, it won’t involve [dilithium crystals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilithium_(Star_Trek)), and [Scottish accents](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP4bNGwANlw) will have evaporated into history by then.
>Warp drives have their roots in one of the most popular science fiction franchises ever, but they do have a scientific basis. A new paper examines the science behind them and asks if a warp drive containment failure would emit detectable gravitational waves.
>The paper is titled “[What no one has seen before: gravitational waveforms from warp drive collapse.](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02466)” The authors are Katy Clough, Tim Dietrich, and Sebastian Khan, physicists from institutions in the UK and Germany.
[Location of the actual paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02466)
will we be able to leverage AI, particle smashers and vast computational power to find a way to travel between stars? I wouldn’t say categorically no, but I’d sure like to know if it’s plausible.
Wow.
It’s funny, because in Star Trek they would literally use the gravity of astral bodies like moons or planets to disrupt warp signatures so they couldn’t be detected.