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by distract8901 979 days ago
>Theoretical warp physics -- the real kind, like Alcubierre, not the Wesley Crusher kind -- proposes that a source of negative mass would be critical to the creation of a warp field.

Well, yes, that's always been the crucial missing component from Alcubierre's design, but I've never seen anyone suggest antimatter would have negative mass or energy before now. The talk has always been about some hypothetical exotic matter