Use that magic stuff the Star Ship Enterprise used.
From another point of view:
Science isn’t easy. It isn’t supposed to be. The process of open publication, peer review and clear data are a part of science because they help us understand how the Universe works. It can be inconvenient and contentious, but it works. Through this process, new ideas are faced with an uphill battle. This is particularly true of ideas that would contradict the foundational theories of physics. So it’s tempting to react to such opposition by playing a different game. Rather than addressing criticism, you start building a story where your idea is obviously right, and others are simply too closed-minded to see it. Down that path lies pseudoscience, and sometimes you can watch it happening. Take for example, Mike McCulloch‘s theory of Modified inertia by a Hubble-scale Casimir effect (MiHsC), also known as quantized inertia.
There are problems with this idea from the get-go. For one thing, the Unruh effect in standard quantum theory is extraordinarily small. If you accelerated a trillion times greater than Earth gravity, you’d only see a thermal temperature of 40 billionths of a degree above absolute zero. Furthermore, since Unruh radiation comes from all directions, it couldn’t create the effects of inertia on its own. But rather than be deterred by this, McCulloch adds other effects into the mix. Since the observable universe is finite, the wavelengths of Unruh radiation is limited, and combined with a cosmic Casimir effect and a bit of information theory, can somehow produce the effect of inertia. The Unruh effect, Casimir effect and information theory are all well established in modern physics, but their hodge-podge combination in MiHsC is misapplied.
https://briankoberlein.com/2017/02/21/doing-it-wrong/
A bunch of ten-legged hamsters spinning gear wheels.
Star Wars Regan project: It’s a push with another push propeller in the bush.
Unruh - wasn’t he that scumbag California pol some years back?
Pflogiston!
Is this anything like the “light sail”?
Solar sails (also called light sails or photon sails) are a proposed method of spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight on large mirrors. A useful analogy may be a sailing boat; the light exerting a force on the mirrors is akin to a sail being blown by the wind. High-energy laser beams could be used as an alternative light source to exert much greater force than would be possible using sunlight, a concept known as beam sailing.
Solar sail craft offer the possibility of low-cost operations combined with long operating lifetimes. Since they have few moving parts and use no propellant, they can potentially be used numerous times for delivery of payloads.
Solar sails use a phenomenon that has a proven, measured effect on spacecraft. Solar pressure affects all spacecraft, whether in interplanetary space or in orbit around a planet or small body. A typical spacecraft going to Mars, for example, will be displaced thousands of kilometers by solar pressure, so the effects must be accounted for in trajectory planning, which has been done since the time of the earliest interplanetary spacecraft of the 1960s. Solar pressure also affects the orientation of a craft, a factor that must be included in spacecraft design.[1]
The total force exerted on an 800 by 800 meter solar sail, for example, is about 5 newtons (1.1 lbf) at Earth’s distance from the Sun,[2] making it a low-thrust propulsion system, similar to spacecraft propelled by electric engines, but as it uses no propellant, that force is exerted almost constantly and the collective effect over time is great enough to be considered a potential manner of propelling spacecraft.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail
Cats can push anything off a table. They should harness cats to do it.
All your base are belong to us.
John Harrison in the 18th century spent 31 years of testing and designing the first Chronometer to tell time, and thus allow for accurate navigation at sea. He never completely won the equivalent of nearly 3 million for a life’s work in doing it.
The Chronometer revolutionized sailing and sea travel enabling England to efficiently maintain its force sea projection and eventual rise to meteoric status as the largest Empire the world has ever seen.
My wife has quantised inertia (QI) – through which she believes light can`t be converted into thrust coz she likes it in the dark.
unruh. The sound of billions of photons grunting as they push the spacecraft.
1.3 million? Hmmmm... Chump change for something like this. They’ll be back for more $$ in no time.
Once our govt starts giving out grants for research into “theories”, it never stops. Just look at the global warming\climate change racket.
Apollo 11 weighed 6.8 million pounds on the gantry. Almost 6 million of that was fuel and oxidant. It burned 78 tons of fuel/ox before it cleared the gantry and 4.5 million pounds in the first 180 seconds after ignition.
If you had that weight in gasoline and a car that got 30 mpg, you could drive it about 22 million miles. The moon is only ~235,000 miles away.