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Re: Re: Re: Re: starship-design: RE: Bugs again




In a message dated 10/20/98 6:52:52 AM, ajcrowlx2@ozemail.com.au wrote:

>Hi Group,
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>Haven't been on for a while...
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>-----Original Message-----
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>From: L. Parker <lparker@cacaphony.net>
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>To: Starship Design <starship-design@lists.uoregon.edu>
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>Date: Tuesday, 20 October 1998 4:26
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>Subject: RE: Re: Re: starship-design: RE: Bugs again
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>>> You can plug values of v > c into special relativity equations,
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>>> at the cost of ending up with things like time and mass values
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>>> that are complex numbers.  I don't know if I'd call that "legal."
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>>> Find me some complex mass and we'll talk then.  A quantum
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>>> mechanical analysis also indicates that you can either have FTL
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>>> particles that aren't localizable (i.e. observable) or you can't
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>>> have FTL particles at all.
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>>Actually, I think it was AIP News about two weeks ago that was talking
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>about
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>>evidence of a type of neutrino with properties that were imaginary numbers.
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>>( I believe it was spin, but don't quote me.) The scientists who discovered
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>>the effect even stated that if validated, these would have to be tachyons
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>>(faster than light particles).
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>>Every analysis I've ever seen of relativity agrees that if you ignore the
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>>evident causality paradoxes, travel above the speed of light is possible,
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>>there just isn't any way to get there because travel at the speed of light
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>>isn't possible.
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>>Lee
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>Can you dig up the reference? John Cramer, in his Alternate View column in
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>"Analog" talked about tachyon neutrinos as a possible drive system - not for
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>FTL, but as a reactionless drive. Coupled to a suitable power source a
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>coherent beam of tachyons could act as a "space drive" that'd travel the
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>Universe. A convenient power source would be either a GUT power-core or some
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>sort of ZPE system, both of which can produce infinite power. 

This is obviously a different use of the word convenient given that that they
don't exist.


>Has anyone
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>checked out Jack Sarfatti's site at Starship? They all think that some sort
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>of ZPE power system isn't too far off. Maybe by 2050?

They also beleave in aliens and psyicic powers.


>Adam