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Personal landscape exploration of whether the exotic-matter requirement of the Alcubierre warp-drive metric can be reinterpreted as a boundary effect (Casimir analog) or evaded via classical anisotropic matter shells (Fuchs et al. 2024 anchor). This deposit archives the full research repository at the tagged release: SymPy/NumPy derivation notebooks, parameter-sweep modules, the clean-room Python port of the Warp Factory slice this work depends on (including the certified exact-symbolic radial energy-condition evaluator and its time-dependent and f(R) extensions), ~30 tracked verification batteries (validation suites, ground-truth adjudicators, adversarial kill-tests), evaluation companions for cited papers (Fell-Heisenberg 2021, Lentz 2020, Garattini-Zatrimaylov 2025, Krasnikov 2003, Rodal 2025), the static research website, and the trust-audit / session-log / navigator documents recording provenance and slice scope of every claim. Composite finding at v0.2.0 (55 sessions): within 4D semiclassical GR — classical matter, pointwise energy conditions — no known candidate for a vacuum + DEC + dynamical useful warp realisation survives; every computationally accessible relaxation explored (time-dependent spin-up, exotic topology, joint vortical exponents, quadratic and designer f(R) modified gravity) is dispositioned, including a pointwise linear-programming obstruction showing no f(R) with a ghost-free graviton yields NEC-respecting Jordan-frame matter on Alcubierre-class walls. The certified minimal mass for the EC-passing Fuchs-class shell is 2.226e27 kg (two-body configuration; single-shell 2.568e27 kg). Three published positive-energy claims were reproduced and adjudicated. Honest framing: every claim carries its slice of parameter space; "warp drives are impossible" is not asserted. See NAVIGATOR.md, TRUST_AUDIT.md, and ROADMAP.md in the archive for the full provenance audit, including recorded reversals and corrections of this project's own results. Companion live dataset on Hugging Face: bshepp/alcubierre-sweeps. Source repository: github.com/bshepp/alcubierre.
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