White-Juday Warp Field Interferometer Experiment

[sanman]

White-Juday "Warp Field Interferometer" Experiment

Here is a presentation by Harold White on what he's calling the White-Juday Warp Interferometer Experiment, which is part of their investigation into the theoretical Alcubierre Warp concept:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/78979805/...rreWarp-Drive-in-Higher-Dimensional-Spacetime

They seem to leverage something called 'boost', which they say is key to engineering the shape and size of a warped region of space. (see slides 6-8 and slides 11-14)

I'm not quite exactly sure what boost is, though.

 

[sanman]

This is quite a long read at 33 pages:

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20110015936_2011016932.pdf

The fuzzier and less well-defined the warp bubble is, the easier it is to produce. A sharply-defined warp bubble is much costlier on energy.