AAWSAP DIRD, Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions, April 2010

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To summarize, the existence of dark energy may be attributed to the combined effects
of vacuum fluctuations in "normal" 3+1 dimensional spacetime plus higher dimensional
contributions. If this model proves to be correct, then ideas extending from this
paradigm could provide one with intriguing opportunities for technological intervention.
7. Warp Drive and Higher Dimensional Manipulation
Both our own research and previous work in higher dimensional Casimir energy16
demonstrate that the magnitude of the vacuum energy is intimately related to the size
of the extra dimension. More precisely, the smaller the extra dimension, the greater the
Casimir energy (and vice versa: the bigger an extra dimension, the smaller the Casimir
energy). In fact, the energy is related to the radius of the higher dimension raised to
the fourth power, which means that very small changes in the radius of the extra
dimension generate dramatic changes to the vacuum energy density.
Figure 4. Manipulated Extra Dimension. A sufficiently advanced technology with the capacity to directly interact
with and manipulate an extra dimension would be able to locally adjust the dark energy density in a given region of
spacetime.
What this means is that if an advanced technology was able to influence the radius of
an extra dimension, then it would acquire direct control over dark energy, and hence
the expansion and contraction of space itself. As tremendous a feat as this may sound,
at this early stage in the research it is one of the only viable mechanisms to generate a
warp drive.
16 Quantum vacuum energy and Casimir energy are often used interchangeably in the literature.
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