Alcubierre warp drive as time machine.

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Hi.

I heard it's possible to use an "Alcubierre warp drive" as a time machine, if they existed. But how, precisely, would that work?
 
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It would normally be called a "causality violation".
In general, traveling faster than light suggests the possibility of setting one up.
Read through: http://www.physicsguy.com/ftl/html/FTL_intro.html
Alcubierre drives would certainly offer the opportunity to experiment in time travel ... though I would anticipate that, should the Universe allow FTL under some special conditions, those same conditions would prevent such a violation somehow.