What would a nuke do to space time?

Question

I think a nuke would make a region of expanding spacetime. Making it useful in a Alcubierre drive.

Answer 1

Not terribly much.

Answer 2

A little less than what the Sun does to space-time.  The sun is powered by nuclear fission.  It's a bit like a bomb that just refuses to stop boombing.

Answer 3

Cause an extremely minuscule disruption to the localized region of space-time foam, it's energy burst quickly dissipated, and forgotten.

Space-time foam:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfoEJoXEj...

If a star the size of VV Cephei A doesn't even nudge space-time as much as an atom on a grain of sand on Earth, what would a puny nuke do?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL4cFjmnQ...

And, VV Cephei A isn't even the largest known star in the galaxy now. It's VY Canis Majoris.

Edit: I was writing this when you posted your follow-up. I doubt a nuke, or a hundred nukes would do it. I think it's going to take a massive matter-antimatter detonation to create a localized  warp bubble.

Answer 4

Hard to tell. It could disrupt alot of the matter inside it or just get absorbed. Impossible to tell without actually doing it :)