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🌀 Alcubierre Warp Bubble: 2D Expansion Map

Interactive top-down 2D map of the Alcubierre warp-drive metric: a colour-coded field of spacetime expansion and contraction around the ship, free-falling test particles dragged by the bubble wall, light rays that cannot pass the front horizon, and a Pfenning-Ford estimate of the negative energy required.

Space & Astronomy2DAdvanced60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

Details

CategorySpace & Astronomy

RenderingCanvas 2D

DifficultyAdvanced

Target FPS60

ControlsSliders for warp speed (0 to 10 c), bubble radius, wall sharpness, exaggeration, time scale and physical size; drag the handle on the bubble wall to resize it, click the field to drop or remove free-falling probes, fire photons, toggle flow arrows, and pick sub-light, 2c, 5c, 10c, thin-wall or thick-wall presets.

warp driveAlcubierregeneral relativityspacetimefaster than lightexotic matter

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⚙ Under the hood

warp driveAlcubierregeneral relativityspacetimefaster than lightexotic matter

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install