Timeline for What would an external observer see when passed by an Alcubierre drive ship?
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| Sep 26, 2014 at 10:36 | comment | added | Chad | @MontyWild - You might consider asking the question about how an alcubierre drive is theorized to work on Space SE | |
| Sep 26, 2014 at 2:06 | comment | added | Chad | The bubble is also limited to moving to the speed of light. But the theory presented by Alcubeire was that you would not necessarily have to move if you could use this bubble to connect the 2 points in spacetime through an area out of spacetime. | |
| Sep 26, 2014 at 2:01 | comment | added | Chad | @MontyWild - Please realize that someone in the future might(and probably will) have a very similar question. But that does not assume the perfect observer. This answer while help explain to them when their question gets closed as a duplicate of this. | |
| Sep 26, 2014 at 2:01 | comment | added | Monty Wild♦ | My understanding of the Alcubierre drive is that the ship and the space surrounding it is moved through the space between origin and destination by the warp bubble, while the ship itself does not move. I'm not sure that the warp bubble is taking the ship out of normal space-time so much as distorting space-time in much the same way as a massive object at the front, and in a similar but negative way at the rear. | |
| Sep 26, 2014 at 2:00 | comment | added | Chad | @MontyWild - The whole point of the Alcubierre is to allow the ship to not pass through the immense area of space between the 2 points. Instead it enters the bubble at one point in space time and exits at another point in space time. So no they would not see it because it never traverses through. | |
| Sep 25, 2014 at 23:28 | comment | added | Monty Wild♦ | please note the last line of my question, to Ignore the fact that a human observer probably wouldn't have time to see anything as it would pass too quickly to see, assume a theoretically perfect observer. I was aware of your first point from the outset, hence this line. As for the second point, the moving warp bubble wouldn't cause a visible distortion even if the ship inside wasn't visible? | |
| Sep 25, 2014 at 19:44 | history | answered | Chad | CC BY-SA 3.0 |