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A warp engine, first and foremost, is extremly easy to build. All the technology to do it is available today. However, there's a second thing to know. It's financially impossible. The single and only thing stopping the building of a warp engine is money. Now to the design.
The idea of the warp engine is routed in basically utterlly mutilating gravity. However, doing so obviously requires mass. The annoying thing about mass is that it takes a lot to make gravity significantly change. So many experiments past WW2 focused on finding a way around that. It was discovered recently that matter, if frozen enough, becomes a superfluid. Basically all the molecules act as one molecule. It was alos discovered that micro black holes are easy to create with very little mass. Thus the loophole. Very cold matter turned into a superfluid is easier to generate gravity than normal things. The proper material to use would be a negativly charged stable molecule. In the future, this will be anti protons due to their simply geometry, negative charge, and ability to compress. But we don't have that, so really anything stable, heavy, and negatively ionized will work. We will take a cylinder that is hollow. This cylinder has coils running through it, charging it. Within the cylinder is also another cylinder that is solid. It is also charged. Within the gap between is a vaccuum, Here we place our heavy negative charged matter. First the charge of the cylinders compress it. Then the freezing of it creates an ever more compressed superfluid. Thus the superfluid begins to compress so much that it forms an unstable singularity. Usually, a singularity is known as a point mass. There is a single spot of mass with gravity, but no volume. By means of placing the central cylinder, this superfluid cannot find a central spot to form a point mass. Thus we have accomplished yet another loop hole. A point mass with strong gravity forces, but which has volume. A point-mass is not possible, so we have basically a weak black hole. The superfluid forms a micro black hole singularity at a macro scale, and without a cnetral location. This unstable form of energy-mass manipulation will give off extremly powerful time-space distortions as well as strong nuclear forces. We thus have our "gravity well" and its strength is now defined by a comboned temperature-voltage relationship with the densiy. A person standing within the radius of the device will experiences a spectacular sight. he will be flying through time, intot he future. Of course he will also be ripped to shreads from the time-space distorstions. So now we have yet another problem to solve, which is simple. Spin it. Spinning any large singularity generates an ergosphere. This region of space time which borders the event horizon is a zone of accelerated space time. Here, a person would age rapatdly while the rest of the universe stood still. In a single second, many eons pass in this zone. It is at this point in time that we begin having gravity wave mutilation. By means of having several of these devices lined up in rings around a central craft, thee gravity can cancel itself out, or exacerbate the effects. At this scale we are dealing more so with a time machine than a warp engine. You should know that a warp engine is nothing more than an advanced time machine. What a large number of these rings made from these cylinders will do is create an ever larger ergosphere around a hollow event horizon. Because we eliminate the formation of a definite singularity, the event horizon, or more appropriatly the gravity waves which define it, can be redefined into a sphere around a craft. And in turn ergosphere generation can cancel out the effects of the event horizon within. What this culminates to is an inverted black hole. We have, in essence, created a cut out of the universe. The craft is generating its own enclosed universe within this event horizon. Because an event horizon does not allow light to pass through it, because time is essentially paused, and an ergo sphere is within, when the ship moves, the ergo sphere blasts off because any inputed speed is multiplied by means of time dialation ( going 10 mph for a million years compressed to 10 hours basically. It generates massive speed without creating or destroying mass/energy). What we've now done is redefine time in the work formula of physics whereby time becomes a variable rather than a constant. When the craft DOES need to stop, it simply cuts power to the heat and chargers. The mass rexpands, and the ship drops out of wapr speed. An unfortunate consequence of this will be a time-space tidal wave that forms in the wake of the ship dropping out of warp. It's basically like creating and destroying a star in a single second. For that single second, anything around will be altered due to gracvity. So warping next to planets is unwise. The ship is basically a big fat tachyon. As it flies through the universe, it will pick up particles in the great vastness of space, and release them upon re-entry of Earth relativity. There are ways to funnel these left over artifacts from the jump, but they will be dangerous.
Now the above method is quite very expenve. Alternative cheaper methods include criss crossing high power light beams to create micro-singularities that exist shortly adn then evaporate. Aligning these into the right way to generate gravity wave interaction would do similar tasks. This might be further researched into.
For your convienece, there's a few photos for you to help imagine it.
Pictures for help in imagining it. probably a few spelling errors. They were made pretty late and I've been meaning to fix it. sorry...
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ATP, not ATM... ATP is standard atmosphere, temperature pressure.
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Some concepts of a ship.
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Also, for all you now, the US is already working on these things. After all, it begs to question, how do I know this?
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