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Traversable wormholes and “warp drive” spacetimes are solutions to the Einstein field equation that violate the classical energy conditions and are primarily useful as “gedanken-experiments” and as a theoretician’s probe of the foundations of general relativity.
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FSNL acknowledges financial support of the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia through an Investigador FCT Research contract, with reference IF/00859/2012, funded by FCT/MCTES (Portugal).
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Lobo, F.S.N. (2017). Introduction. In: Lobo, F. (eds) Wormholes, Warp Drives and Energy Conditions. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 189. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55182-1_1
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