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Re: starship-design: Casimir-Foreward balloon
"L. Parker" wrote:
>
> The pool of energy is so large that if we do manage to tap it we had best be
> VERY careful. The "accidental" release of the energy contained in only a few
> cubic centimeters would vaporize a planet...
>
> Maybe this is one of those children with matches things. We should leave it
> alone until we are older and wiser!
>
> Lee
I see Zero-point energy as the grease the keeps the universe moving.
Tap that and the unverse will stop moving. :)
Check out January's Scientific Americian for a good blurb on zero-point energy,
negitive energy
and space warps.
--
"We do not inherit our time on this planet from our parents...
We borrow it from our children."
"Where a calculator like the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and
weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes
and weigh only 1 1/2 tons." Popular Mechanics, March 1949