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arXiv:2406.02466 (gr-qc)
[Submitted on 4 Jun 2024]

Title:What no one has seen before: gravitational waveforms from warp
drive collapse

Authors:Katy Clough, Tim Dietrich, Sebastian Khan
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    Abstract:Despite originating in science fiction, warp drives have
    a concrete description in general relativity, with Alcubierre
    first proposing a spacetime metric that supported
    faster-than-light travel. Whilst there are numerous practical
    barriers to their implementation in real life, including a
    requirement for negative energy, computationally, one can
    simulate their evolution in time given an equation of state
    describing the matter. In this work, we study the signatures
    arising from a warp drive "containment failure", assuming a stiff
    equation of state for the fluid. We compute the emitted
    gravitational-wave signal and track the energy fluxes of the
    fluid. Apart from its rather speculative application to the
    search for extraterrestrial life in gravitational-wave detector
    data, this work is interesting as a study of the dynamical
    evolution and stability of spacetimes that violate the null
    energy condition. Our work highlights the importance of exploring
    strange new spacetimes, to (boldly) simulate what no one has seen
    before.

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures, plus appendix. Comments welcome!
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
Cite as:  arXiv:2406.02466 [gr-qc]
          (or arXiv:2406.02466v1 [gr-qc] for this version)
          https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.02466
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From: Katy Clough Dr [view email]
[v1] Tue, 4 Jun 2024 16:34:41 UTC (1,479 KB)
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