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Alcubierre meaning

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TSS Miguel Alcubierre

Name Meaning

Dr. Miguel Alcubierre, Mexican physicist

Motto

Intrepidus ad Astra (Fearlessly to the Stars)

Commissioned

1 January 2158

Length

41.45m (136', 0.985 u)

Draw

23.0m (75', 0.5435 u)

The TSS Miguel Alcubierre (1C-001) is warp starshipoperated by the Joint Terrestrial Space Agency. The lead ship of the Alcubierre class, the ship was laid down in 2152, launched three years ahead of schedule in 2156, and was commissioned on 1 January 2158. First commanded by Capt. Ted Martínez, and currently commanded by Capt. Rudolf Köhler, the ship was the first human-designed and constructed vessel to break the warp barrier, first to travel to another star system (Alpha Centauri), and first to travel to Tau Ceti.

History[]

The Alcubierre is named for Dr. Miguel Alcubierre, a 21st-Century Mexican physicist, who first advance the theory that effectively superluminal travel could be achieved by creating a warp field in space. Prior to Alcubierre's discovery, superluminal travel was strictly i

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Alcubierre drive

Hypothetical FTL transportation by warping space

The Alcubierre drive ([alkuˈβjere]) is a speculative warp drive idea according to which a spacecraft could achieve apparent faster-than-light travel by contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind it, under the assumption that a configurable energy-density field lower than that of vacuum (that is, negative mass) could be created.[1][2] Proposed by theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre in 1994, the Alcubierre drive is based on a solution of Einstein's field equations. Since those solutions are metric tensors, the Alcubierre drive is also referred to as Alcubierre metric.

Objects cannot accelerate to the speed of light within normal spacetime; instead, the Alcubierre drive shifts space around an object so that the object would arrive at its destination more quickly than light would in normal space without breaking any physical laws.[3]

Although the metric proposed by Alcubierre is consistent with the Einstein field equations, construction of such a dr

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It's always a welcome thing to learn that ideas that are commonplace in science fiction have a basis in science fact. Cryogenic freezers, laser guns, robots, silicate implants… and let's not forget the warp drive! Believe it or not, this concept – alternately known as FTL (Faster-Than-Light) travel, Hyperspace, Lightspeed, etc. – actually has one foot in the world of real science.

In physics, it is what is known as the Alcubierre Warp Drive. On paper, it is a highly speculative, but possibly valid, solution of the Einstein field equations, specifically how space, time and energy interact. In this particular mathematical model of spacetime, there are features that are apparently reminiscent of the fictional "warp drive" or "hyperspace" from notable science fiction franchises, hence the association.

Background:

Since Einstein first proposed the Special Theory of Relativity in 1905, scientists have been operating under the restrictions imposed by a relativistic universe. One of these restrictions is the belief that the speed of light is unbreakable and hence, that there will n

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