Alcubierre metric
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Alcubierre drive — The Alcubierre metric, also known as the Alcubierre drive or Warp Drive, is a speculative mathematical model of a spacetime exhibiting features reminiscent of the fictional warp drive from Star Trek , which can travel Faster than light (although… … Wikipedia
Métrica de Alcubierre — Gráfico de la impulsión de Alcubierre, mostrando las regiones opuestas, contraída y extendida, del espacio tiempo respecto al sector central en el cual se ubica la burbuja plana de deformación. En 1994 el físico mexicano Miguel Alcubierre publicó … Wikipedia Español
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Novikov self-consistency principle — The Novikov self consistency principle, also known as the Novikov self consistency conjecture, is a principle developed by Russian physicist Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov in the mid 1980s to solve the problem of paradoxes in time travel, which is… … Wikipedia
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Chronology protection conjecture — The chronology protection conjecture is a conjecture by the physicist Professor Stephen Hawking that the laws of physics are such as to prevent time travel on all but sub microscopic scales. Mathematically, the permissibility of time travel is… … Wikipedia
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