Announcement of talk

Hello all,

As mentioned earlier, I was invited a few months ago  by a colleague at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott to give a live talk about my work. This is my alma mater, and I am happy to "be back", even if it is just virtually.

Here is a summary of my upcoming talk:

Solitons in space–time capable of transporting time-like observers at superluminal speeds have long been tied to violations of the weak, strong, and dominant energy conditions of general relativity. The negative-energy sources required for these solitons must be created through energy-intensive uncertainty principle processes as no such classical source is known in particle physics. This talk presents an approach for overcoming this barrier, explicitly constructing a class of soliton solutions that are capable of superluminal motion and sourced by purely positive energy densities.

Location: Jim and Linda Lee Planetarium (virtually through YouTube)

Time: 12:00 PST (please check the link for your local time because daylight savings time begins in the USA on March 14, 2021)

Date: March 18, 2021

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O8ji46VBK0


An image from a previous talk I gave ("Breaking the Warp Barrier: Hyperfast Solitons in Einstein-Maxwell-Plasma Theory", CENTRA Seminar, Lisbon, Portugal, 23 July, 2020) illustrating a potential study of soliton morphology and spacecraft designs


Feel free to leave me a comment here after the talk, if you have any questions and I can try to address them in a future blog post. 

I'm back to a very busy week and hope you watch the talk – either live or afterwards!

Erik

Comments

  1. LorenzoMarch 15, 2021 at 8:01 PM

    How long do you think it will take for the first prototypes(assuming you manage to bring down all 60 orders of magnitude in energy)

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    1. ErikMarch 21, 2021 at 7:19 AM

      I will be happy if the energy requirements can be reduced by just 30 orders of magnitude! I think the theoretical research in preparation for an experiment can be completed by a small team within five years. The experimental effort is harder for me to predict, perhaps taking years or decades. Assuming success at each of these steps, then one can start building the first prototypes.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 17, 2021 at 7:50 PM

    Dr. Lentz, thanks for your work here. Have you had any thought on how the solitons would actually be generated? For example, the White-Juday Interferometer Experiment uses ring capacitors to generate an electrical field that produces a measurable warping of spacetime.

    I know in your last talk you mentioned plasma, but didn't know if that would be the mechanism. Thanks!

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    1. ErikMarch 21, 2021 at 7:22 AM

      Soliton creation/acceleration will be a topic of my future research, but I don't have many details to divulge at the moment.

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