Erik W. Lentz's Personal Website Blog - on warp drive, dark matter, and more

 Hello all, An article about my warp drive paper came out recently, and I wanted to share it here. The article provides some further commentary made by other physicists about my paper, so it gives a better sense for where the topic stands among physicists. I was interviewed for this article and thought it was well done. Here you go: https://academictimes.com/this-design-for-a-faster-than-light-warp-drive-is-making-waves-but-physicists-disagree-on-whether-its-possible/ Happy Saturday, Erik

Hello all, I have received quite a few requests by email, interview, reddit, social media, and even this blog for a response to the paper "Introducing Physical Warp Drives" (IPWD) by Alexey Bobrick and Gianni Martire (https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/abdf6e). There has also some confusion about the difference between the papers. This paper came out very near to my own 'warp drive' paper (Hyper-Fast) and in the same journal, Classical and Quantum Gravity .  This post addresses questions I have received about IPWD and its reference to an unfinished version of my own paper. Suffice it to say, I am somewhat disappointed in their assessment. For ease of access, I will be working from the most recent  arXiv version of IPWD (https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06824v2). For disclosure, I have been in contact with the authors since July 2020 when I gave a virtual seminar on my own paper to CENTRA (Center for Astrophysics and Gravitation) in Lisbon, Portugal ( https://tecnico.ulisboa.