Yeah, the Newtons sure do put on the pounds.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.scotsman.com ...
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.
"... 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.
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.
LOL!
I like that movie.
..."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.
"I would have liked Montana"......(dies)
That's using impulse drive; warp drive is wasteful for short trips.
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.
Well, Einstein did say "E=MC squared, and this may be a local phenomenon"
PING to PING your space PING list.
Hitting our exact "dimension" might be harder than they know...
Are we there yet? Are we there yet?
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?
Space ping material?
Yeah, the Newtons sure do put on the pounds.
With my luck my luggage would be re-routed to venus.
I hope it pans out for them.
I must be psychic -- I predicted that somebody would reply in exactly that way.... ;-)
Hopefully this would also include the rest of the spacecraft.
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.
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