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Could this be the way to nearing lightspeed in a space ship.?


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Could what? You've not provided a link to anything.


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Laser wake particle acceleration provides no useful beam luminosity. Space travel is about changing momentum, mv. If your propulsion system involves energy, (mv^2)/2, you are screwed. The better you do the worse you do.

The Starflight Handbook Mallove, Matloff. Nobody is going to be "nearing lightspeed" with any engineering solution including a matter-antimatter drive.

The perfect stardrive would go backward in time as it went forward in space. That way you could go anwhere essentially instantaneously needing only 3 mph (and not endanger schoolchild traffic crossings as you did it).


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Finally, a reasonable answer to travelling those huge distances. So let's figure out how to manipulate those other dimensions and control space-time. Warp 5, Mr. Sulu!
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So the "cow jumped over the Moon", Why?

Because it did not know it was impossible.

Possibly our belief that speed is limited, and out physical theories aim at concurring, will be the reason we will not go very far in space.
It is fine with me, we are probably unfit.
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Euler's equation unites algebra and analytic geometry. Mathematics and hard science are absolutely rigorous. Unless you can falsify a founding postulate, provide a falsifying empirical observation, or demonstrate a suitable superset of theory, Special Relativity cannot be broken. Division by zero is undefined and the universe is causal.

Undefined division by zero also births the Third Law of Thermodynamics. However, negative temps kelvin are trivially accessed in population inversions: lasers, MRI, NMR, EPR, adiabatic demagnetization of paramagnetic salts for refrigeration. Interested readers are invited to submit an analogous finesse of Special Relativity accompanied by a description of empirical reduction to practice.

To criticize is to volunteer. Stop whining, start winning.


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Hi:

I do not whine so I must think you speak to some other person. My longer response went bye bye. Due possibly to some mooing activity.
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Hello Al:

I will not get to accept your challenge if that was what you intended. It is not important.
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Hi All,

I seem to recall seing an article on the subject of mini-accelerators, but I can't find it right now. Does anybody have a link or are we too far along some kind of tangent here?

Dr. R.


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