C-0013 Refuted MODERATE certainty

Independent recomputation confirms the headline of the Van Den Broeck reduction: region IV reproduces to 1% with our existing closed form, the total requirement at his parameters is solar-mass scale (~1e30 kg), and the reduction versus the unmodified 100 m bubble is ~32 orders of magnitude. His +/- sign split within region II does NOT reproduce: it depends on the unstated interpolating profile, and a half-cosine profile yields no negative transition energy at all. The profile-independent negative energy is region IV's -6.2e29 kg, which no choice of B removes.

Standing our derivation · numerical result · TRL 1 Assumes his stated parameters alpha=1e17, R~=D~=1e-15 m, R=3e-15 m; region II treated as static via x' = x - v_s t at constant velocity, so rho = R3/16pi with K_ij = 0; the three-Ricci derived symbolically from Christoffel symbols for B^2(dr^2+r^2 dOmega^2); two unrelated C2 interpolating profiles standing in for his unstated one Stops applying non-constant v_s, where the region II slice is no longer static and the extrinsic curvature terms return Computed in compute/vdb_pricing.py, tests/test_vdb_pricing.py Note Also found: the equation extractor missed VDB's equations because he wraps eqnarray in \newcommand macros (\bear/\eear). Extractor gap, logged in Plane.

What it rests on

E-0017 · S-0010 — A `warp drive' with more reasonable total energy requirements · direct

…ble' that can be used to transport macroscopic objects. A spacetime is presented for which the total negative mass needed is of the order of a few solar masses, accompanied by a comparable amount of positive energy . This puts the warp drive in the mass scale of large traversable wormholes. The new geome…

EXACT · re-found in source

E-0018 · S-0010 — A `warp drive' with more reasonable total energy requirements · definition

…ation of the Alcubierre geometry We will solve the problem of the large negative energy by keeping the surface area of the warp bubble itself microscopically small, while at the same time expanding the spatial volume inside the bubble . The most natural way to do this is the following: ds^2 = - dt^2 + B^2(r_s) [(dx - v_s(t)…

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Attacks run against it

X-0021 REFUTED recomputation · by redteam

Independent auditor found the premise false and the computation wrong. The interpolating profile IS stated in S-0010 (body.tex offset 12042, equation labelled B, 'let us choose n=80' at 12199); it was invisible to the tooling because the canonicaliser strips inline math and the pre-PDB-26 extractor missed macro-wrapped equations. Plugging the stated profile into the module's own unmodified integrator reproduces the published split to 1% (-1.380e30 / +4.865e30 vs -1.4e30 / +4.9e30; boundary w = 0.9815 vs 0.981) — verified by the lead before this record was written. The 'half-cosine counterexample' is C^1 only, outside the paper's stated twice-differentiable class, so it could not witness in-class profile dependence. The headline half of C-0013 (region IV to 1%, solar-mass totals, ~32-order reduction) survives and is carried by the superseding claim.

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