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[Hypervigilant]

Sorry, not buying it.

[LdSentinal]

Hyperspace engine to be built by GM using UAW workers.

[RightWhale]

They say that anything that solves the equations must be valid, but Einstein apparently did not believe that. He rejected some solutions out of hand because they did not appear to describe the world even if mathematically they were perfectly good solutions.

[tet68]

Z machine bump.

[Lurker]

One is forced to wonder what Schroedingers cat would have made of all this...

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[coconutt2000]

If these guys are right, does that mean the Universe really is flat? ;-)

[operation clinton cleanup]

When he presented his idea in public in 1957, he became an instant celebrity. Wernher von Braun, the German engineer who at the time was leading the Saturn rocket programme

Saturn rockets were in development in 1957?

[Physicist]

More breathless sensationalism from New Scientist.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

"Bunch of friggin' lightweights..."

[glorgau]

And in the cellar of his parents' house, he experimented with high explosives. But this was to lead to disaster.

Who woulda thunk it? ;-)

[Calvin Locke]

"You'd better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It's upleasantly like being drunk."

"What's so bad about being drunk?"

"You ask a glass of water."

I saw a show on worm holes and time travel a while back. I think they said, hypothetically, that it would take the 5%
of the mass of Jupiter to create a one meter diameter "rip" that would last for one second.

Just big enough for one person to jump through it.

So, the amount of energy required is phenomenal, and then, I'd bet you'd need to protect everything around it,
including the cargo...

[KellyAdmirer]

"Mein Fuhrer, I can walk ... in hyperspace!"

[shezza]

Following Heim theory is hard work....

Geez, no kidding. My head hurts.

[KevinDavis]

Cool...

[DustyMoment]

The problem with science fiction is that it has an annoying history of becoming science fact. I believe that hyperdrive is possible. We can develop the engine - the question is, can we develop the materials necessary to protect the occupants of a vehicle that would be propelled by a hyperdrive engine?

[Sundog]

I smell a patent.

[md2576]

In Heim's view of space and time, this limitation disappears. He claimed it is possible to convert electromagnetic energy into gravitational and back again, and speculated that a rotating magnetic field could reduce the influence of gravity on a spacecraft enough for it to take off.

[Names Ash Housewares]

The nice thing about all this, is there is a proposed expermiment that can be done to test the theorys.

Even if its a million to once chance, I think its worth doing that experiment. The benefits are obvious if the theory holds water. The test is not a waste even if its negative. Thats the whole point of experimenting, learing what works, what doesnt.

The Wright brothers did the same thing. Testing and experimenting on something that others thought impossible.

And those first steps and efforts led to us walking on the moon only seven decades later. From zero powered flight to moonwalking, contained within a single century. Wow.

There are still great leaps to come.

"Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops." -H. L. Mencken

[Reaganesque]

There was some Russian scientist (Podelekov, I think) who spun a superconducting ring of material inside a magnetic field and claimed to have achieved a mass reduction of 2% of the ring. Might this have some correlation to Mr. Heim's work?