Posted on 02/11/2006 4:31:06 PM PST by PatrickHenry
I'll wait for the prototype.
ROFL! Thanks for that!
That's an electromagnetic effect in birefringent materials. In this case Kerr is the name of a guy that provided a solution to some eq. Frame dragging was mentioned in that paper, but it's much smaller than the slingshot effect Felber considered. NASA uses it for space probes. The idea is that you fly past a planet in a high speed glance. The speed is too great to enter an orbit and the gravitational field whips the probe around like David's slingshot and sends it flying off with a significant amount of E. During the slingshot fling, towards the end, the probe moves away from the massive body(planet). Felber calls that "repulsion". As your post noted, it isn't repulsion.
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