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Thanks for the insightful reply, Craig. It has been a long time. Things are very well here at the Benton house.

Yes, this is an idea for a reactionless drive. Originally I wanted to use entanglement as the basis for the drive, but then I was watching something about string theory and they commented on the concept of the interchangeability of matter and energy. That gave me the idea to approach it in this fashion.

In a nutshell, this is the fictional theory upon which this drive works...

There are currently two sets of physical laws. The size of an object determines what set of physical laws are applied. We only have the crudest of capabilities when it comes to observing and understanding the quantum laws. We have very very precise capability when it comes to observing and understanding the relativistic world. At the border between quantum and relativity is the ability to make strange things happen and to effectively violate the laws of the observable relativistic world. Thus the way the drive works is this... the plasma is composed of particles at the quantum/relativistic borderline, but existing in the relativistic world. The magnetic field causes the plasma to behave in such a way that a portion of it becomes "pseudo electrons" by changing the resonant frequency of the atoms. Those pseudo electrons flow through the catalyst making it act like a battery holding the lost mass as huge electrical charge. The charge can be returned from the state of being "pseudo electrons" to being part of the plasma through a controlled reversal of the magnetic field.

Lucky for me science fiction doesn't need to obey all the known laws of physics, it just needs to make a reasonable explanation of the unknown and create an excuse for people to believe in the fantastic.

Bill

OK,we have a 20 billion kg ship in LEO. We want to accelerate to 3.456% of light speed. If we plan of taking 200 years to get to that speed it will take a constant thrust of 33,000,000 newtons. That is an awful lot of thrust for an awful long time. The acceleration rate would be very very very slow. My question is this...

It the ship in LEO is on the same plane as the moon would it be accelerating fast enough to avoid hitting the moon? It seems that it would not fly straight away, but would go into an increasingly eccentric orbit until the apogee was at an escape point. Or would it simply spiral into an ever increasing radius. Either way, is there a minimum acceleration required to escape the earth without hitting the moon?

Bill

The biggest challenge with the perpetual wheel is getting back into the physical universe in which we live while it is still running. In a dream universe it not only keeps running, but accelerates perpetually until it rotates at a speed exceeding light. As soon as you bring it back here it begins to decelerate again.

Bill

How many pictures did you get? The ascent must have been much longer than 23 minutes.

Bill

Very cool! What altitude did it reach? What altitude were these pictures taken at? Very cool indeed!

Bill