Dr. Katy Clough

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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea · Building a Warp Drive · 26 Apr 2026 podcast

Yeah, so as I say, actually, the mathematics of general relativity describe quite well this warp drive.

So the real barrier is this construction of negative energy density in large quantities.

Yeah, right.

So the problem is a kind of, you know, an engineering one of creating this negative energy density and then controlling it sufficiently to get it around us into a bubble.

And as we discussed, you know, turning it off in a controlled way.

But, you know, we understand quite well the mathematics of, you know, if we were able to somehow physically do that, how the curvature of space-time would change and how it would move us through space.

We're able to describe that using the mathematics of general relativity.

I like to think so.

So I mean, you know, another motivation for doing this is understanding these exotic types of matter is related to trying to understand questions about the early universe, or in particular, the Big Bang.

If we came from a singularity, you know, singularity just means we don't really understand the physics of what's happening there.

And a lot of the resolutions of these singularities that occur in the Big Bang and also in the center of black holes are

some kind of negative energy density or some kind of exotic matter that would come in at very high energies that we experience in these kind of situations.

Live long and prosper.

Thank you very much.

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