Warp drive

In the fictional universe of Star Trek, the warp drive is a form of faster-than-light (FTL) propulsion. It is, however, a very serious research topic in factual science. (See Alcubierre drive)

Is the discovery of dark energy the key to warp drive?

Dark energy is positive zero point energy density with negative pressure. Einstein showed that the pressure is 3 times as powerful as the energy density in bending space-time. Therefore, dark energy anti-gravitates repelling everything and expanding space beyond its normal Hubble expansion. This is the accelerating universe in which ~ 73% of the large-scale stuff is this dark energy with negative pressure. In addition the Russians (Gennady Shipov in Moscow) are extending Einstein's theory to include torsion fields as well as curvature fields. In that case we can have quintessent fields in which the zero point energy density is not simply a cosmological constant, but is a variable local scalar field. We can now build a Weightless Warp Drive (WWD) like Alcubierre's by a kind of Josephson wave interference effect. We live in a Higgs Ocean vacuum field. The Higgs Ocean has vacuum waves. We use a local high Tc coherent wave like in the thin film anyon condensates that locks into the local phase of the vacuum wave. This is similar to a heterodyne radio receiver. By modulating the local vacuum wave's phase we can make both positive and negative zero point quantum pressures in different parts of the star ship's fuselage and, therefore, shape the weightless free float geodesic glide path of the ship. This does not take a lot of power. It's like Tao Chi. For more details see the new book Super Cosmos by Jack Sarfatti (2005) ISBN:1-4184-7663-3.

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