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Conundrum Drive is the name of a hypothetical modification of the Alcubierre "warp drive" originally theorised by contributors on 4hv.org after various discussions about gravitational modification.
The basic idea is that under certain conditions the rapidly rotating Cooper pairs within a Type II superconductor bombarded with positrons can magnify the weak anti-gravity fields to a level that can be detected. The experimental setup that would achieve the strongest effect would be a layering of Type 1 and Type II superconductors such as magnesium diboride (MgB2) and yttrium barium copper oxide (YBCO, also known as 1-2-3). This would form domains within the two materials that would concentrate the fields in the centre of the disk, allowing any anti-gravity field generated to be emitted from the spin axis as a focussed beam.
The main limitation of the Alcubierre Drive as it stands (2014) is the need for exotic matter which has not been detected. The modified drive though still requiring anti-matter is not as complex to build and the drive modules can be concentrated at the front and back of the ship therefore keeping radiation away from the crew cabin(s).
Mathematical analysis of spinning superconductors suggests that between a certain range of spin velocities the properties of the disk become impossible to predict and could therefore suggest new physics. In fact analysis of Einstein's field equations suggests that it could be related to the speed of light, as at 57% C an antigravity beam would be projected forwards from an accelerating ship.
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