Re: SuSy Drive Parameters

Mark:


"nunya@xxxxxxx" <Alien8752@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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
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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...

I like that idea - so often in SciFi movies you see some HUGE dreadnaught
that's powered by some kind of blue light coming from a spot on the rear of
the hull. Maybe what we see is the XRay radiation from very high black body
radiation as a secondary effect of the SUSY lead!

If your 'rocket' was shaped just right you wouldn't even care if when you
shut it off your atoms spread out (didn't stay together), you just engineer
a thick back plate and squirt a few pounds more lead out the back to prime
it.

== John ==


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