Ce que ça vaut ? Je n'en ai pas la moindre idée !
OK je sors... Beam me up Scotty !
La métrique d'Alcubierre
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9tri ... Alcubierre
Alcubierre drive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
The warp drive: hyper-fast travel within general relativity
Miguel Alcubierre
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Wales, College of Cardiff, PO Box 913, Cardiff CF1 3YB, UK
Abstract. It is shown how, within the framework of general relativity and without the introduction of wormholes, it is possible to modify a spacetime in a way that allows a spaceship to travel with an arbitrarily large speed. By a purely local expansion of spacetime behind the spaceship and an opposite contraction in front of it, motion faster than the speed of light as seen by observers outside the disturbed region is possible. The resulting distortion is reminiscent of the `warp drive' of science fiction. However, just as happens with wormholes, exotic matter will be needed in order to generate a distortion of spacetime like the one discussed here...
http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0264-9381/11/5/001
...Warp Drive Engine Would Travel Faster Than Light
July 28, 2008 -- It is possible to travel faster than light. You just wouldn't travel faster than light.
Seems strange, but by manipulating extra dimensions with astronomical amounts of energy, two Baylor University physicists have outlined how a faster-than-light engine, or warp drive, could be created that would bend but not break the laws of physics.
"We think we can create an effective warp drive, based on general relatively and string theory," said Gerald Cleaver, coauthor of the paper that recently appeared on the preprint server ArXiv.org
The warp engine is based on a design first proposed in1994 by Michael Alcubierre. The Alcubierre drive, as it's known, involves expanding the fabric of space behind a ship into a bubble and shrinking space-time in front of the ship. The ship would rest in between the expanding and shrinking space-time, essentially surfing down the side of the bubble.
The tricky part is that the ship wouldn't actually move; space itself would move underneath the stationary spacecraft. A beam of light next to the ship would still zoom away, same as it always does, but a beam of light far from the ship would be left behind...
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/07/2 ... ngine.html