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Spacewarp or Space Warp may refer to:

Entertainment

Toys

Spacewarp (toy), a 1980s build-it-yourself marble coaster originally sold by Bandai.
Spacewarp (transformer), a female Decepticon originally based on Jetfire.

Video games

Spacewarp, a software product by Bug-Byte.
Space Warp, an ASCII game loosely based on Star Trek.

Other media

"Spacewarp", a 2015 song by Mark Sherry.
"Space Warp", the 39th episode of Space: 1999.
"The Invaders from the Space Warp", a story in Detective Comics which introduced Zook.

Science and technology

Asynchronous SpaceWarp, a framerate smoothing technique used on the Oculus Rift.
Hyperspace, a method of traveling in science fiction.
Warp drive a fictitious spacecraft propulsion system.

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+'''Spacewarp''' or '''Space Warp''' may refer to:
-==Background==
-Spacewarp is one of three proposed methods of moving between events in spacetime faster than the speed of light.  The idea was first proposed by [[Miguel_Alcubierre|Miguel Alcubierre]], a doctoral candidate at the [[University_of_Wales|University of Wales]].
-==Mechanism==
+==Entertainment==
+===Toys===
-The premise involves creating sufficient (-) energy in front of a vessel to contract space while accumulating (+) energy behind the vessel to expand space.  This would theoretically create a wave to propel the vessel forward in a locally-stable region of spacetime.
+* [[Spacewarp (toy)]], a 1980s build-it-yourself marble coaster originally sold by [[Bandai]].
+* [[Spacewarp (transformer)]], a female [[Decepticon]] originally based on [[Jetfire#Unicron trilogy|Jetfire]].
+===Video games===
-The mechanism proposed by Alcubierre is referred to as the [[Alcubierre_drive| Alcubierre drive]].  The paper was published by the Journal of Classical and Quantum Gravity in 1994.
+* [[Bug-Byte#Software products|''Spacewarp'']], a software product by [[Bug-Byte]].
+* [[List of TRS-80 games#Space Warp|''Space Warp'']], an ASCII game loosely based on ''[[Star Trek]]''.
-==Refinements==
+===Other media===
+* "[[Mark Sherry#2015|Spacewarp]]", a 2015 song by [[Mark Sherry]].
-Significant problems with the theoretical potential of this form of propulsion have been noted.  Most significantly are the restrictions of quantum inequality (uncertainty principle-type inequalities that place limits on the magnitude and duration of negative energy fluxes due to quantum coherence), noted by Ford and Roman in 1995.  Additionally, the rapid accumulation of large energy fluxes would appear to violate the strong, dominant and weak energy conditions.
+* "[[Space Warp (Space: 1999)|Space Warp]]", the [[List of Space: 1999 episodes|39th episode]] of ''[[Space: 1999]]''.
+* "The Invaders from the Space Warp", a story in ''[[Detective Comics]]'' which introduced [[Zook (comics)|Zook]].
+==Science and technology==
-Many of the problems with the Alcubierre drive were resolved by Chris Van Den Broeck in 1999 in a paper also published in Classical and Quantum Gravity.  By contracting the 3+1 dimensional surface area of the 'bubble' being transported by the drive, while at the same time expanding 3 dimensional the volume contained inside, Van Den Broeck was able to reduce the total energy needed to transport small atoms to less than 3 solar masses.
+* [[Asynchronous SpaceWarp]], a framerate smoothing technique used on the Oculus Rift.
+* [[Hyperspace]], a method of traveling in [[science fiction]].
+* [[Warp drive (disambiguation)|Warp drive]] a fictitious spacecraft propulsion system.
+==See also==
-Later work by González-Díaz resolved the problem of quantum instability; at least for 2 dimensions.  In his paper published in Physical Review D, Vol. 62, González-Díaz proposed considering closed, time-like curves.  This refinement allows for multiply-connected spaces, closing the geodesic incompletemeness and satisfying quantum instability requirements.
+* [[Warp (disambiguation)]]
+{{disambiguation}}
-==External Links==
-*[http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/0264-9381/11/5/001/cq940501.pdf The Warp Drive (Alcubierre)]
-*[http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9906050 The (Im) Possibility of Warp Drive (Van Den Broeck)]
-*[http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/0107097 Reduced Energy Requirements for Warp Drive (Loup, Waite)]
-*[http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.62.044005 Warp Drive Space-Time (González-Díaz)]