ArianeGroup x Devialet x La Samaritaine Paris

The immersive experience ArianeGroup X Devialet is settling in the heart of La Samaritaine, Paris to give you the exclusive chance to enjoy an #Ariane5 launch. Available in Paris until February 14th.
And also, join us today, Wednesday 9th, starting at 5pm CET at la Samaritaine (Level -1) to meet ArianeGroup engineers.
Please use the hashtag #AskOurEngineers to ask them your questions remotely.
Read more about the experience here: bit.do/ArianeGroupXDevialetXSa...
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What is the Alcubierre "warp" drive? To put it simply, this method of space travel involves stretching the fabric of space-time in a wave which would (in theory) cause the space ahead of an object to contract while the space behind it would expand. An object inside this wave (i.e. a spaceship) would then be able to ride this region, known as a "warp bubble" of flat space. This is what is known as the "Alcubierre Metric". Interpreted in the context of General Relativity, the metric allows a warp bubble to appear in a previously flat region of spacetime and move away, effectively at speeds that exceed the speed of light. The interior of the bubble is the inertial reference frame for any object inhabiting it. Since the ship is not moving within this bubble, but is being carried along as the region itself moves, conventional relativistic effects such as time dilation would not apply. Hence, the rules of space-time and the laws of relativity would not be violated in the conventional sense. (We hope that engineers and technicians will search for ways to design the Alcubierre Drive project)