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

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the 21st century. One believes that an energy field called the Higgs boson permeates
spacetime and that the interaction of matter with this field is what is responsible for
particles acquiring mass. One believes that an exotic ubiquitous energy source,
unimaginatively named dark energy, is responsible for the current accelerated
expansion of the universe based on observation of supernova in galaxies billions of light
years from Earth. One also believes that the universe may not consist of the three
spatial dimension of length, breadth, width, and one of time, but that, in fact, there
may be as many as seven additional compactified dimensions assuming the topology of
a Calabi-Yau manifold, and that the fundamental building blocks of the universe are, in
fact, extended string-like entities.
Modern physics is full of many exciting and marvelously imaginative creations. Because
one understands these curiosities, one could potentially harness these elements of
nature for one's own technological ends. This is by no means a certainty, but if we may
make predictions based on the innovative history of scientific pioneers of the past, then
it seems entirely possible that the creative minds of the future may indeed find ways to
accomplish what, to us, may seem like magic.
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