Antimatter-based propulsion offers a unique opportunity for missions to exoplanets.
Could we use antimatter-based propulsion to visit alien worlds? : Read more
Could we use antimatter-based propulsion to visit alien worlds? : Read more
I would like to see an in-depth look at Dr Pais' patents with the US Navy as the assignees particularly the mass reduction device which pertains to superluminal travel .Antimatter-based propulsion offers a unique opportunity for missions to exoplanets.
Could we use antimatter-based propulsion to visit alien worlds? : Read more
Always good to have options!Antimatter-based propulsion offers a unique opportunity for missions to exoplanets.
Could we use antimatter-based propulsion to visit alien worlds? : Read more
Pure science fiction for the next few centuries!I believe faster than light travel can be done with antimatter propulsion.
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Antimatter Master Pub. 5-8-2022.pdf
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Okay, why ? and not 6 effete words. Use intelligence to explain if you will.Pure science fiction for the next few centuries!
First, it would take a HUGE amount of energy and time to generate even a small amount of antimatter.Okay, why ? and not 6 effete words. Use intelligence to explain if you will.
Sorry, I can't see any real science in your explanation just slogans.......First, it would take a HUGE amount of energy and time to generate even a small amount of antimatter.
Second, the technology postulated is simply that, i.e.: a great science project with no idea how to undertake even a prototype let alone a usable drive.
Third, lots of ideas of this type thought up over the years that ultimately ended up in the trash bin.
Fourth, it is in the realm as perpetual motion and we all know that is impossible.
Please, I understand and studied Einsteins equations. I feel it falls apart in space with 99.99999% with no Matter (mass), therefore, E=MC2 theory doesn't apply.FTL travel is not possible for any object with a finite rest mass for one overwhelming reason. The energy requirement would be infinite. Kinetic energy is 1/2 times mass times v squared. As an object goes faster its relativistic mass increases by the reciprocal of the square root of quantity 1 minus quantity v squared over c squared. As v squared approaches c, the quantity under the square root sign approaches zero. The reciprocal thus approaches infinity. You cannot get to FTL without going through c.
You could take all the mass in the universe, convert it into energy, apply that energy to a single electron and it still would not reach c.
Did you read my theory ? Telling me about how hard it is too make anti-matter is like telling Mickey Mantle on how to hit a base ball. This is going no where. NO further replies to you.If you don't believe in the applicability of Einstein's equations then there is nothing I can do to help you. But just for the record:
Antimatter is extremely difficult to make. If we take all of the atom colliders over all of history and add up all the antimatter they have made, it would amount to about a microgram.
In order to send a human rated craft to the nearest star to the Sun within a human lifetime, something on the order of several hundred tons would be required.
It would take the energy from all the sunlight falling on the Earth over several hundred hears to make enough. And then you would have the problem of storing it. There is not really any way to do that. Even if you put a frozen chunk of it in the best vacuum we can generate, the collision of remnant gasses would generate so much heat it would give off heat faster than we could replenish it.
One assumption underlying the above analysis is that the craft would travel at 0.1c, the minimum speed needed to reach Proxima Centauri and return within a human lifetime. Going to, say, 0.99c would require around 500 times as much antimatter.
Sorry, I'm an Engineer and look at the practical side of the weird things scientists think up AND this is definitely one of them! Enough said.Sorry, I can't see any real science in your explanation just slogans.......
Yes, it is always telling that none of the discoverers of such impossibilities have ever won the Nobel Prize, nor can we find their products in Walmart.I do have to point out that the articles we are discussing here are not benefitting from any of that yet-to-be-gained knowledge.
The electromagnetic generator was, I believe, an idea I read in the ‘70s that they could use an EM field to force seawater through chutes on a submarine using the moving water as propulsion, would make virtually no noise. We see how well that worked, they still make propellers.True enough. The patents the Navy took out are for:
A room temperature semiconductor
An electro-magnetic Forcefield Generator
A High Frequency Gravitational Wave Generator
Craft using an initial Mass Reduction Device ( that one is for FTL or superluminal travel )
They warranted two were operational, and two were preemptive so as not to have to pay royalties to foreign governments currently working on the same tech.
Apparently, (I'm not a scientist) the room temperature semiconductor is a BFD.
Pretty sure the FTL device is conceptual, I found it interesting the Navy called out royalties to other nations.
They have also gotten real touchy about inquiries on this topic.
Interesting discussion.