Jean-Michel Gauthier

Jean-Michel Gauthier (born 1954) is a French-Canadian theoretical physicist and propulsion engineer. Gauthier is known for designing and constructing the Gauthier Drive, a method of space-time warping by which a spacecraft could achieve faster-than-light travel. 
== Biography ==
Gauthier was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was inspired by science and space from a young age but took intense interest beginning with the American lunar landing in 1967 when he was 13 years old. 
Gauthier received his MSc degree in theoretical physics from the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) in 1980. He also received a PhD in the study of general relativity from Cambridge University in the UK in 1984. Later, beginning in 1986, he began working in physics laboratories all over the world working on the development of his theory of faster-than-light travel. 
He is best known for the proposal and later construction of "The Space-Time Warp Drive" that was published in a science journal in 1991. In this paper, he described the Gauthier Drive, a method for traveling faster-than-light that does not violate the physical principle that nothing can locally travel faster than light. He constructed a model that might transport a volume of flat space inside a "bubble" of curved space. This bubble, named as a superluminal hyper-dynamic local space, driven forward by a local expansion of space-time behind it, and an opposite contraction in front of it, so that a spaceship would be placed in motion by forces generated in the change made by space-time.
Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Gauthier developed the first models and test vehicles that would later become the first superluminal spacecraft. 
== Trivia ==
This character is a tuckerization of science communicator and futurist John Michael Godier and based somewhat of Miguel Alcubierre, as well as, his development of the Alcubierre Drive.
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