RE: starship-design: purported "warp-drive" breakthrough

["L. Clayton Parker" <lparker@cacaphony.net>]

Hmm,

I can't seem to get the pdf version to download and I don't have ghostscript
installed on my NT workstation. Does anybody have the full text in either
pdf or txt?

Lee Parker

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-starship-design@lists.uoregon.edu
> [mailto:owner-starship-design@lists.uoregon.edu]On Behalf Of Steve
> VanDevender
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 2:41 PM
> To: starship-design@lists.uoregon.edu
> Subject: starship-design: purported "warp-drive" breakthrough
>
>
> I can't believe I seem to be beating Kyle to posting this, but
> one of the top stories on slashdot.org today concerns a paper
> claiming that the energy requirements for an Alcubierre-style
> "warp bubble" can be drastically reduced, particularly that the
> negative energy required is now only on the order of grams
> (still, assuming you can make negative energy at all).
>
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/9905084