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Originally Posted by "Bob" Dobbs
What the research team — led by Brendan McMonigal, Geraint Lewis, and Philip O’Byrne — has found is that these particles can get “swept up” into the warp bubble and focused into regions before and behind the ship, as well as within the warp bubble itself.
When the Alcubierre-driven ship decelerates from superluminal speed, the particles its bubble has gathered are released in energetic outbursts. In the case of forward-facing particles the outburst can be very energetic — enough to destroy anyone at the destination directly in front of the ship.
“ Any people at the destination,” the team’s paper concludes, “would be gamma ray and high energy particle blasted into oblivion due to the extreme blueshifts for [forward] region particles.”
Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/93882/w...#ixzz2DZYIXTkJ
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If I'm reading this correctly, this is only a problem for people at the destination, not people inside the ship, right?
And if so couldn't the problem be solved by choosing a stopping point far enough away from inhabitants so this blast of particles doesn't impact them?