Photon propagation in a stationary warp drive space-time

1995/10/10 by Claes Cramer, Cramer, Claes R · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics #Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques #Digital Holography and Microscopy

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9510018

Abstract

We simplify the warp drive space-time so that it becomes stationary and the distorsion becomes one-dimensional and static. We use this simplified warp drive space-time as a background for a photon field. We shall especially use the Drummond&Hathrell action in order to investigate the velocity effects on photons in this background. Finally, we discuss the limitations of this model.

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