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RE: starship-design: ZPF=inertia=gravity
Kelly,
IF you can manipulate inertia as this article speculates,
then you won't need anything as clumsy as a chemical rocket.
Think about the variables in the basic rocket equation...a
bloody FLASHLIGHT would be enough!
Lee Parker
"Science has 'explained' nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the
world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness."
-- Aldous Huxley, 1925
Interesting artical. (Thou not the easiest to read.) The fact it would
integrate quantum and classic phisics in a way nothing else has sounds
promising. But who knows.
The authors didn't speculate on any ways to manipulate this unified
mass/energy/space effect, but any manipulation could have stagering effects
for star travel. If you could damp out the inertia of a ship and its fuel,
but restore them as the fuels entering the engines. You could drive a
starship to high sublight speed with very little thrust. In theory even with
normal chemical engines. That would certainly change all our arguments about
startravel. ;)
Then again. Proving that these phenomino are related does mean they can be
manipulated in a usable way.
Kelly