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   Mysterious New Warp Drive Patent Surface   
   02 Mar 21 09:29:36   
   
   "In April of 2020, two engineers from Chicago, Jessica Gallanis and Eytan    
   Halm Suchard published a patent application for a drive using the updated    
   Harold White designs. A device aptly named the Alcubierre-White Warp    
   Drive. Barely a month into the COVID 19 shutdown, the patent’s publication    
   seemed to sneak under the radar, with a lone report by Read Multiplex in    
   December of 2020 (one that sits behind a paywall).   
      
   In the summary portion of the patent, Gallanis and Suchard explain how “the    
   invention uses two Alcubierre gravitational walls to achieve a warp drive    
   effect as means of propulsion while surrounding or enclosing a cavity or    
   space where passengers can travel.”    
      
   This design is consistent with Alcubierre, who’s solution they point out    
   “suggested a method for changing the metric of space-time and creating a    
   space-time warp bubble such that while from outside the bubble, the bubble    
   can advance in superluminal speed, from within the bubble the speed is    
   much lower than the speed of light.”   
      
   The patent also notes the work of Froning, who they say observed how, “if    
   sufficient warping is achieved, ship speed is slower than light speed within    
   the region that surrounds it-even if it is moving faster-than-light with   
   respect    
   to Earth.”   
      
   See:   
      
   https://thedebrief.org/mysterious-new-warp-drive-patent-surfaces-online/   
      
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