Miguel Alcubierre
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Alcubierre in 2013.
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| Born | Miguel Alcubierre Moya March 28, 1964 Mexico City |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Institutions |
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics National Autonomous University of Mexico |
| Alma mater |
National Autonomous University of Mexico (Licentiate, MSc) Cardiff University (PhD) |
| Thesis | Multi-Period Systems in Stochastic Electrodynamics (1988) |
| Known for | Alcubierre warp drive |
Miguel Alcubierre Moya (born March 28, 1964 in Mexico City) is a Mexican theoretical physicist. Alcubierre is known for the proposed Alcubierre drive, a speculative warp drive by which a spacecraft could achieve faster-than-light travel.
Alcubierre was born in Mexico City in 1964.
He is married to María Emilia Beyer.
Alcubierre obtained a Licentiate degree in physics in 1988 and a MSc degree in theoretical physics in 1990, both at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). At the end of 1990, Alcubierre moved to Wales to attend graduate school at Cardiff University, receiving his PhD degree in 1994 through study of numerical general relativity. After 1996 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany, developing new numerical techniques used in the description of black holes. Since 2002, he has worked at the Nuclear Sciences Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he conducts research in numerical relativity, employing computers to formulate and solve the physical equations first proposed by Albert Einstein. The solitary wave solutions proposed by Alcubierre for the Einsteinian field equations may possibly prove general relativity consistent with the experimentally verified non-locality of quantum mechanics. This work militates against the idea that quantum non-locality would ultimately require abandoning the mathematical structure of general relativity.
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