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Travel to Mars in 3 hours (Air force studies Trek tech)
The Scotsman ^ | January 5 2006 | Ian Johnston

Posted on 01/05/2006 8:42:46 AM PST by jbwbubba

AN EXTRAORDINARY "hyperspace" engine that could make interstellar space travel a reality by flying into other dimensions is being investigated by the United States government.

The hypothetical device, which has been outlined in principle but is based on a controversial theory about the fabric of the universe, could potentially allow a spacecraft to travel to Mars in three hours and journey to a star 11 light years away in just 80 days, according to a report in today's New Scientist magazine.

The theoretical engine works by creating an intense magnetic field that, according to ideas first developed by the late scientist Burkhard Heim in the 1950s, would produce a gravitational field and result in thrust for a spacecraft.

Also, if a large enough magnetic field was created, the craft would slip into a different dimension, where the speed of light is faster, allowing incredible speeds to be reached. Switching off the magnetic field would result in the engine reappearing in our current dimension.

The US air force has expressed an interest in the idea and scientists working for the American Department of Energy - which has a device known as the Z Machine that could generate the kind of magnetic fields required to drive the engine - say they may carry out a test if the theory withstands further scrutiny.

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KEYWORDS: makeitso; podkletnov; space; warp
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To: johnandrhonda
It's the law for this universe, but what about all the others??? Apparently there's an unlimited number of them--and they're all equal.

It's kinda like women can drive cars in this universe, but what about the Islamic one?

When the Leftist countercultural iniative finally succeeds in destroying the West and catapulting us all into the Islamic universe, and women (and the men who love them driving the kids to school) lament the establishment of the shariah as international law--we must remind them of the universe they left behind--and how they got where they are--and that, just as Einstein said, it's all relative--and that, just as the Leftists say, all universes are equal--and to see the humor.

61 posted on 01/05/2006 9:39:02 AM PST by Savage Beast (Why George W. Bush is a Great President in five words or less: 9/11 was never repeated.)
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To: canuck_conservative

"... where the speed of light is faster ..."

Of course, since we can't know the properties of another dimension or alternate universe in advance, the speed of light might be 3 mph.


62 posted on 01/05/2006 9:41:09 AM PST by bessay
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To: M203M4

Oh. It is of course possible that there is a "neutral electron" that has just eluded us. I don't want to give the impression that people have given up pouring over the data in the 40 GeV range (for neutral leptons). But working out the cross sections would be more conclusive.


63 posted on 01/05/2006 9:42:53 AM PST by M203M4
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To: Rebelbase

LOL!

I like that movie.


64 posted on 01/05/2006 9:44:14 AM PST by RosieCotton
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To: M203M4

..."I don't want to give the impression that people have given up pouring over the data in the 40 GeV range (for neutral leptons). But working out the cross sections would be more conclusive."....

At 63 GeV it is postulated that gluons will weaken into their poorer in-laws, the klingons.


65 posted on 01/05/2006 9:46:04 AM PST by bessay
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To: Vaquero

"I would have liked Montana"......(dies)


66 posted on 01/05/2006 9:46:51 AM PST by Rebelbase (Whew! Another year until the cursed green bean casserole strikes again!)
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To: Brilliant
I don't think it takes 3 hours for light to get from Earth to Mars.

That's using impulse drive; warp drive is wasteful for short trips.

67 posted on 01/05/2006 9:47:31 AM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?")
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To: RosieCotton

I say we give Mars to the Islamofacists. They can found a perfectly balanced Muslim society underground...and see how well living in the middle ages prepares you to operate an oxygen-scrubber. Once locked in the gravity well of Mars with no Stargate, let's see how many billions of years of peace and freedom the rest of us have while they are happy in Coventry.


68 posted on 01/05/2006 9:48:32 AM PST by 50sDad (It's not "diversity" for you to steal my Christmas.)
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To: jbwbubba


Well, Einstein did say "E=MC squared, and this may be a local phenomenon"


69 posted on 01/05/2006 9:49:56 AM PST by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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To: KevinDavis

PING to PING your space PING list.


70 posted on 01/05/2006 9:50:05 AM PST by airborne (If being a Christian was a crime, would there be enough evidence to convict you?)
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To: jbwbubba
Also, if a large enough magnetic field was created, the craft would slip into a different dimension, where the speed of light is faster, allowing incredible speeds to be reached. Switching off the magnetic field would result in the engine reappearing in our current dimension.

Hitting our exact "dimension" might be harder than they know...

71 posted on 01/05/2006 9:50:36 AM PST by GOPJ
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To: jbwbubba

Are we there yet? Are we there yet?


72 posted on 01/05/2006 9:54:49 AM PST by handk (The truth is the truth even if no one believes it, and a lie is a lie even if everyone believes it.)
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To: jasoncann
I'm curious are there any new technologies developed by people of today.. Everything I've seen recently has been based off of technology or papers that were published in the 50's and earlier...

My father spent 30 years at NASA, from 1959 to 1989, and he constantly complains that the technology of today is based on discoveries and theories from before 1975. Could it be a tax code thing from the days of Jimmy Carter, where R&D dollars are no longer protected from taxes?

73 posted on 01/05/2006 9:55:50 AM PST by SlowBoat407 (The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
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To: KevinDavis

Space ping material?


74 posted on 01/05/2006 9:58:00 AM PST by GeraldP (Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.)
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To: r9etb
It was pounds and Newtons.

Yeah, the Newtons sure do put on the pounds.


75 posted on 01/05/2006 10:00:11 AM PST by SlowBoat407 (The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
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To: GeraldP

With my luck my luggage would be re-routed to venus.


76 posted on 01/05/2006 10:00:54 AM PST by ParityErr
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To: calljack
Einstein-Rosen bridges. Wornholes. M-brane theories n-Dimensions. 4 of which on top of this one that gravity operates in.

I hope it pans out for them.

77 posted on 01/05/2006 10:01:07 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be. -El Neil)
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To: SlowBoat407
Yeah, the Newtons sure do put on the pounds.

I must be psychic -- I predicted that somebody would reply in exactly that way.... ;-)

78 posted on 01/05/2006 10:01:39 AM PST by r9etb
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To: jbwbubba
Switching off the magnetic field would result in the engine reappearing in our current dimension...

Hopefully this would also include the rest of the spacecraft.

79 posted on 01/05/2006 10:02:32 AM PST by Recovering Hermit (Guess what? I got a fever! And the only prescription...is more cowbell!)
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To: jbwbubba

Sounds fantastic; it might be noted that a good fraction of the real science that is being done in outer space, the part directed outward rather than toward earth resources, is being accomplished by European programs. The private sector might be developing TV and tourism and NASA might be doing the spectaculars, but science is increasingly the baliwick of Europe.


80 posted on 01/05/2006 10:03:06 AM PST by RightWhale (pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
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