Reading the article and examining the warp drive diagram again, I am
reminded of Marc's standard 1980s-era convention FAQ answer to how
antigrav drive worked to propel an air/raft through the atmosphere. He
explained that it created a positive node (or push up) at the back of the
air/raft and a negative node (pull down) at the front of the air/raft, so
the air/raft was constantly "sliding down hill" and that created its
forward motion, which is similar to what that warp diagram shows. How much
fun it would be to try that in an atmosphere is another issue.
So on that basis it looks more like an inertia-less drive. Newton not happy.
Bonus off-topic minefield: The ring ship looks an awful lot like the
semi-official spaceliner Enterprise that was in a bunch of books and made
it onto the wall of the recreation room in STTMP. How come Marc and the ST
guys always know this stuff in advance?
> Meanwhile...
> http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/04/nasa-may-have-accidentally-developed-a-warp-drive/
> So assuming that it can ever be scaled up to the size of something as
> large as a manned spacecraft, are we looking here in Traveller terms as
> reactionless thrusters or more like something akin to stutterwarp? Or is
> it something completely different?
>
>
reminded of Marc's standard 1980s-era convention FAQ answer to how
antigrav drive worked to propel an air/raft through the atmosphere. He
explained that it created a positive node (or push up) at the back of the
air/raft and a negative node (pull down) at the front of the air/raft, so
the air/raft was constantly "sliding down hill" and that created its
forward motion, which is similar to what that warp diagram shows. How much
fun it would be to try that in an atmosphere is another issue.
So on that basis it looks more like an inertia-less drive. Newton not happy.
Bonus off-topic minefield: The ring ship looks an awful lot like the
semi-official spaceliner Enterprise that was in a bunch of books and made
it onto the wall of the recreation room in STTMP. How come Marc and the ST
guys always know this stuff in advance?
> Meanwhile...
> http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/04/nasa-may-have-accidentally-developed-a-warp-drive/
> So assuming that it can ever be scaled up to the size of something as
> large as a manned spacecraft, are we looking here in Traveller terms as
> reactionless thrusters or more like something akin to stutterwarp? Or is
> it something completely different?
>
>