SuSy Drive Parameters

Per the thread about reactionless drives, I've been trying to think
about how a SuSy drive might work, and what its limits might be.

The basic principle is taken from Supersymmetry, a theory which
gives all known particles "superpartners" that are the statistical
opposite of their partners; that is, fermionic quarks' superpartners
are bosonic squarks, and fermionic electrons are partnered by
selectrons. Gluons are matched with gluinos, and photons with
photinos.

Also the superpartners have 1/2 unit of spin less than their
partners; selectrons and squarks have spin 0, gluinos and photinos
spin 1/2.

http://thinkzone.wlonk.com/Physics/PartHyp.htm

As I cited in the other thread, a particle transitioning to the
superparticle state and back again seems like it ought to be a
trivial, energy-free process (barring inevitable hardware losses)
except for an odd thing; the final particle is physically displaced
from the original particle. Evidently it has no added momentum
afterward, so the process conserves momentum, just not location.

What I can't seem to locate are any numbers or even guesses how
large the spatial displacement is, or how long it takes.

Dandy basis for a reactionless drive except for a few things.
First*, during the transition, what used to be atoms made of electrons
photonically bound to nuclei comprising quarks held together by
gluons, will be a bunch of bosonic squarks that will have to be
somehow bound to fermionic gluinos, surrounded by bosonic selectrons
similarly bound to a cloud of photinos.

Notice that the above cited table does not mention what happens to
the various charges of particles when they change to their
superpartners; where do an electron's charge and magnetic field "go"?
Do gluinos and photinos have charges and magnetic fields, and if so
where do they get them? What happened to charge conservation?

What keeps the brand-spanking new bosons from bailing at c, thus
becoming unavailable for the second part of the process? Are
supersymmetric "atoms" as I describe above stable, in the sense of
hanging around long enough to change back? What happens to something
more complex than an atom like say you or me during this process? Will
we notice any change in ourselves (assuming we survive the process)?
What will we see through portholes?

Is supersymmetric matter what we currently call dark matter? Is
there an entire universe of this stuff coexisting with us? If so, why
can't we detect it more directly? Do we have to wait for somebody's
SuSy drive to break down in mid-transition to see it? FTM can one bang
into otherwise invisible stuff while trying to use a SySy drive?

*Zeroth of course is how to induce the transitions simultaneously in a
collection of extended objects like a crewed vessel.

OTOH, we don't need to convert a whole vessel. Suppose we figure out
how to induce these transitions in isolated atoms, then clumps of
atoms. From there we can have a reactionless thruster consisting of
the machinery needed to make an otherwise inert chunk of say lead
transition at will with the desired directionality. Bolt an airframe
or spaceframe to said chunk, and away we go. Assuming the bolts
hold...


Mark L. Fergerson

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