I donno about this one, but Dr. Felber seems like he's had a responsible career.
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2 posted on
02/11/2006 4:32:15 PM PST by
PatrickHenry
(Virtual Ignore for trolls, lunatics, dotards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
To: PatrickHenry
This article was posted next year.
3 posted on
02/11/2006 4:32:35 PM PST by
REDWOOD99
To: PatrickHenry
Sure. What news. I can just see flying cars in the future. Not a happy thought for anyone in Hampton Roads who has to contend with the drivers from h$ll here.
4 posted on
02/11/2006 4:33:05 PM PST by
OpusatFR
To: PatrickHenry
You wonder why the Klingons have not paid us a visit, then.
5 posted on
02/11/2006 4:33:12 PM PST by
Brilliant
To: PatrickHenry
Human travel near the speed of light has already been proven and demonstrated countless times already by the French when they retreat.
6 posted on
02/11/2006 4:33:34 PM PST by
Screamname
(My name is Uninterested Kevin, monkey cousin of Curious George.)
To: PatrickHenry
Felber's research shows that any mass moving faster than 57.7 percent of the speed of light will gravitationally repel other masses lying within a narrow 'antigravity beam' in front of it. The closer a mass gets to the speed of light, the stronger its 'antigravity beam' becomes. Oh??? If that is truly the case, one of the big barriers to FTL/near C travel vanishes. That was hitting individual atoms at that speed would generate a lethal shower of X-rays and secondary particles.
7 posted on
02/11/2006 4:36:49 PM PST by
null and void
(<---- Aged to perfection, and beyond...)
To: PatrickHenry
The jury is still out on whether Einstein's equations on general relativity were right, though. That's why they sent up a sattelite last year to test them.
Special relativity is the one that has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt.
8 posted on
02/11/2006 4:37:22 PM PST by
Brilliant
To: PatrickHenry
Man someday may travel at the speed of light, but bureaucracies will still require at least 30 days to investigate customer complaints.
9 posted on
02/11/2006 4:37:44 PM PST by
silverleaf
(Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
To: PatrickHenry
Sit Down, Shut Up and Hold On cause HERE WE GO AGAIN, AGAIN, AGAIN, AGAIN, AGAIN...
To: PatrickHenry
To: PatrickHenry
I was gonna do this, but I had to fertilize the lawn this weekend.
17 posted on
02/11/2006 4:44:49 PM PST by
keithtoo
(It's STILL not safe to vote Democrat)
To: PatrickHenry
I also dunno about this one. There are an infinite number of possible solutions. Einstein rejected a 5-dimensional solution because it didn't feel right, which if we might use Einstein's gut as a guide, makes solutions less than nessarily true even if they are exact.
18 posted on
02/11/2006 4:44:50 PM PST by
RightWhale
(pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
To: PatrickHenry
NasaSpaceFlight.com is carrying the story, too...
An abstract from one of his papers on the subject (paper is readable in PDF)
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0505098
Shows up in Nasa Daily, too... for Feb 10.
Looks fairly legit, not a crackpot physicist.
19 posted on
02/11/2006 4:46:34 PM PST by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: PatrickHenry
I donno about this one, but Dr. Felber seems like he's had a responsible career. I just object to the idea of referring to it as "The Felber Drive"..
" Cap'n, the Felbers are out, we canna escape the Darwinians ! "
" That strange feeling as we approach Light Speed is known as the Felber Effect.."
" We're approaching Felber Speed, Sir ! "
No, I don't like it.. I don't like it at all....
20 posted on
02/11/2006 4:46:50 PM PST by
Drammach
(In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king..)
To: PatrickHenry
The field equation of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity has never before been solved to calculate the gravitational field of a mass moving close to the speed of light. Felber's research shows that any mass moving faster than 57.7 percent of the speed of light will gravitationally repel other masses lying within a narrow 'antigravity beam' in front of it. The closer a mass gets to the speed of light, the stronger its 'antigravity beam' becomes. Hmmm, an offshoot of the hypervelocity penetrators from the DoD? ;-)
Look at it this way, you have a 1-kg projectile going at 0.57 c. It is headed for a 50-ton tank initially at rest. From F=ma, there is NO WAY the repulsive force from the penetrator is going to accelerate the tank out of the way before impact. Scratch (and dent, and obliterate) one armored vehicle.
Full Disclosure: Yes, I knew people who worked on supercomputer modeling of projectile-armor dynamics. What of it?
Second Disclosure: YES, I *read* the article, and *YES* I'm aware that that's not what it's really about. . .
Cheers!
21 posted on
02/11/2006 4:47:25 PM PST by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: PatrickHenry
Thats all well an good... can we go back to the Moon already?
To: PatrickHenry
24 posted on
02/11/2006 4:51:35 PM PST by
bikepacker67
(Islam was born of Hagar the whore.)
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To: PatrickHenry
I donno about this one, but Dr. Felber seems like he's had a responsible career. Yeah, but as a project administrator, according to this. Also, he's kind of old to be doing innovative work; I suspect if there's anything to this at all, he's fronting for some much younger guys.
27 posted on
02/11/2006 4:53:56 PM PST by
Grut
To: PatrickHenry
So if you get to .57 the rest is free? How do you slow down?
30 posted on
02/11/2006 4:56:46 PM PST by
VadeRetro
(Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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