Re: Technobabble: Reducing inertial mass?

syring@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Daniel Boese wrote:
>> syring@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> > Daniel Boese schrieb:
>> >
>> > >
>> > > Has any similar thought been done on the idea of reducing inertial
>> > > mass? For example, what limits would have to be in place to prevent a
>> > > perpetual motion machine, or violating causality or other
>> > > highly-useful laws of thermodynamics?

Changing mass without transferring the mass-equivalent into some form of
energy violates the First Law of Thermodynamics: You can't win. (The other
two are You can't break even (Entropy increases) and You can't get out
of the game. (In classical physics, Absolute zero is a state of no particle
motion. There is no such state in Quantum physics, where Fermions have a
mininum energy of one-half quantum.) :-) ) If you decrease your mass at the
beginning of the flight, you have to find equivalent energy to process to
restore your mass at the end. Plus some extra, since the process won't be
100% efficient. Thus, You can't break even.

>> > Piece of cake: Reduce the interaction of the particles with the Higgs
>> > field.
>> >
>> > Engage inertial dampers, Scotty!
>>
>> Wouldn't that redice the /gravitational/ mass rather than the inertial
>> mass?
>
> No, the Higgs field is what is supposed inertial mass to matter, see
> e.g. http://www.hep.yorku.ca/what_is_higgs.html

Hmph. Fool quantum plumbers. Think they can just make it up as they go
along.

> Karl M.Syring

It would reduce both. IM *is* GM in General Relativity.

Note that reducing the mass of the drive system includes reducing the mass
of your reaction mass, and thus your thrust, so that your rocket would
continue to supply the same acceleration at best. As I said, You can't win
in thermodynamics.

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