The Naveed Quantum Bubble Drive: Vacuum-Domain Decoupling, Emergent Spacetime, and Controlled Reconnection

This paper develops the Quantum Bubble Drive (QBD), conceived by Naveed Islam Butt, as a thought experiment about changing a bounded domain’s relationship to its surroundings while preserving its internal physical structure. It asks whether a payload-bearing domain could become temporarily isolated and later reconnect at a different external location. The framework examines vacuum phase transitions, gravitational junction conditions, entanglement-based accounts of emergent geometry, relational time, and constrained traversable-wormhole models. It distinguishes ordinary interaction suppression, changed causal access, and the stronger conjecture of changed geometric attachment. Elementary thin-wall and quantum-network calculations expose stability and transfer-channel requirements; an error-sensitivity calculation separates excitation transfer from state recovery. Version 3.1 provides operational tests, model-specific rejection criteria, primary references, conceptual illustrations, an author biography, and an AI contribution disclosure. This is a speculative research preprint, not independently peer reviewed. No working drive, controllable spacetime detachment, or faster-than-light transport has been demonstrated. AI contribution: ChatGPT (OpenAI) assisted with drafting, literature checks, internal technical review, elementary calculations, diagrams, formatting, and cover artwork under the author’s direction. Naveed Islam Butt originated the concept and retains responsibility for the manuscript and publication.