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Physical Warp Drives

iopscience.iop.org Research & data Research papers Mathematics & science Candidate

Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
5
submitters
5
observed span
2021–2025
peak thread · 125 comments
147 pts
latest 20+ return · 2022-11-05
68 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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Hey all, I'm one of the authors of the paper Introducing Physical Warp Drives and a Y Combinator alum (YC W'14). This video does a great job explaining our paper and Erik's as there a few misunderstandings in this forum https://youtu.be/PA66ah9b0U4. We all know each other and all have the warp bug as we now have a path; it's just going to be difficult. If you would like to join our warp drive cohort, please email us a bit about…

I always find these kind of papers interesting. It seems like they found a more general "warp drive" metric. But after skimming it, I don't understand how they want to create it in reality. The best shot I think we have at metric engineering - unless you want to build something crazy like moving spheres and rings of ultra dense matter - is to look into materials with interesting spin-gravity coupling. We know that rotating bodies have additional gravitational interactions…

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
233

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Total comments
195

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Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2021-03-07Physical Warp Drivesldng30
2021-03-19Physical Warp Drivesmromanuk20
2021-05-28Physical Warp DrivesFirst breakout · Best threadphonebucket147125
2022-11-05Physical Warp Drives (2021)Latest 20+ point returnJPLeRouzic6868
2025-08-11Physical Warp Drives (2021)ednite132