Response to new paper: "Generic warp drives violate the null energy condition"
Hello all, I was pointed to a paper that appeared on the arXiv yesterday ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03079v1 ). I am glad to see people taking a close look into my paper ( https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/abe692 , and the latest arXiv version https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07125v2 ) and the other recent papers on the topic of warp drives ( https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/abdf6e , https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06488 ). I have also been contacted in the last months by several other researchers working to reproduce and expand upon my results. I wanted to make a running post on this paper and a series of posts on other appraisals of my work in this field and the resulting discussions. After reading through their entire paper, I noticed that this new manuscript seems to have overlooked my complete discussion of the weak energy condition (WEC) contained in my published paper, instead referring to an early arXiv manuscript that tracked quantities of energy, momentum, etc. in only an E...