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Sep 9, 2022 at 2:17 comment added Attila Janos Kovacs lurscher, what makes you think that? :"The reason is that the Alcubierre metric assumes that the field is already distributed over the spacetime at previous times before the tube is formed." - As far as I can see, neither Alcubierre's articles nor any other fundamental studies suggest that the distribution of matter along the entire route should be prepared in advance.
Aug 29, 2012 at 3:14 comment added Ron Maimon The inflaton is not exotic--- the negative stress is just the same as a cosmological constant, and doesn't violate null energy since it cancels on null rays. This is why people use scalars to drive inflation.
Aug 29, 2012 at 2:32 comment added lurscher @RonMaimon, right, the cosmological constant is not exotic (does not violate the null energy condition). The inflation field was exotic though
Aug 28, 2012 at 2:22 comment added Ron Maimon you should define clearly what type of exoticness is required for different things. There is no violation of null energy condition from a positive cosmological constant, since it cancels out on null rays.
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