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Warp Drive Unstable, But Cosmology Offers Hope ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Novel Realizations of Warp Drive Spacetimes as Solutions of General Relativity"
· Thomas Buchert, Antony Frackowiak
arXiv:2605.03653v1 · 2026-05-05 · CC BY 4.0 · ⏱ 1 min · General Relativity
Physicists found that the warp bubble is unstable, but the solution may lie in the behavior of the expanding universe.
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Adam RiessBrian SchmidtEdwin HubbleGeorges LemaîtreMaarten SchmidtSaul Perlmutter
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spacetime curvature speed of light expansion of the universe
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Hubble's lawDoppler effectprinciple of constancy of the speed of lightmass–energy equivalenceMaxwell's equationsLorentz transformations
Original: arXiv:2605.03653v1 · CC BY 4.0 · bridge42worlds