These energy conditions are simply physically wrong constraints imposed
ad hoc. They are not real. Dark energy violates them. The energy
conditions are myths like the myth we could not break the sound barrier.
Stargates violate the WEC and ET uses that to get here. There is no WEC
in real metric engineering IMHO.

On Sep 26, 2005, at 6:56 PM, art wagner wrote:


In a recent paper (8 days ago), Peter K. F. Kuhfittig wrote: "While
the wormholes described here are not likely to occur naturally, a
traversable wormhole that does not violate the WEC could in
principle be constructed by an advanced civilization."
CYLINDRICALLY SYMMETRIC WORMHOLES
(http://xxx.lanl.gov/PS_cache/gr-qc/pdf/0507/0507008.pdf)

The WEC is

TuvV^uV^v = 0

V^u is time-like

This requires a positive local energy density for any timelike observer.

This need not be so for zero point energy that absolutely bends space-time.

Of more importance is the SEC (Strong Energy Condition) that says

1 + 3w =0

This is violated for zero point energy where

w = -1

See Super Cosmos http://amazon.com
http://stardrive.org