Motivating Emissions from Positive Energy Warp Bubbles

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Main Authors: Lentz, Erik W., Felton, Ryan C.
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Published: 2024
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author Lentz, Erik W.
Felton, Ryan C.
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Felton, Ryan C.
contents Recent research has proposed that advanced propulsion mechanisms such as warp drives are more physically feasible than previously thought, using positive energy sources potentially sourced by known classical physics. Motivated by this, we hypothesize that an advanced inter-planetary or interstellar civilization using warp drives at sub-luminal or super-luminal speeds will broadcast detectable emissions of their travels. These technosignatures would be of significant astronomical, physical, and technological interest. This paper seeks to motivate signatures from warp drive emissions due to intrinsic and extrinsic processes across several messenger types (electromagnetic, particle, and gravitational) and propose a research program to simulate such emissions in sufficient detail to search for their signatures through coordinated analyses across multiple observatories.
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spellingShingle Motivating Emissions from Positive Energy Warp Bubbles
Lentz, Erik W.
Felton, Ryan C.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Recent research has proposed that advanced propulsion mechanisms such as warp drives are more physically feasible than previously thought, using positive energy sources potentially sourced by known classical physics. Motivated by this, we hypothesize that an advanced inter-planetary or interstellar civilization using warp drives at sub-luminal or super-luminal speeds will broadcast detectable emissions of their travels. These technosignatures would be of significant astronomical, physical, and technological interest. This paper seeks to motivate signatures from warp drive emissions due to intrinsic and extrinsic processes across several messenger types (electromagnetic, particle, and gravitational) and propose a research program to simulate such emissions in sufficient detail to search for their signatures through coordinated analyses across multiple observatories.
title Motivating Emissions from Positive Energy Warp Bubbles
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19381