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starship-design: RE: A few thoughts on drag & exoitc stuff(was 'still doing stardrives')

To: "N. Lindberg" <nlindber@u.washington.edu>
Subject: starship-design: RE: A few thoughts on drag & exoitc stuff(was 'still doing stardrives')
From: "L. Clayton Parker" <lparker@cacaphony.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 12:23:46 -0600
Cc: <starship-design@lists.uoregon.edu>
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Reply-To: "L. Clayton Parker" <lparker@cacaphony.net>
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>
> 	One of the candidates for the 'dark matter' that accounts for 90%
> of our universe and our galaxy is a low-rest mass particle called the
> axion.  This is one of those wierd things that are predicted by SUSY and
> superstring theories.  It has the interesting property that it decays into
> photons in the presence of a strong magnetic field.

Well, if so, it would make ramjets REAL easy to spot....

Lee Parker

References:
- starship-design: A few thoughts on drag & exoitc stuff(was 'still doing stardrives')
  - From: "N. Lindberg" <nlindber@u.washington.edu>

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