accelerating worm hole mouths
- From: raphfrk <raphfrk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 20 May 2007 14:52:10 -0700
I was reading the traversable wormholes paper at
http://www.megasociety.net/noesis/84.htm
The gives some time delays (@1g and @1000g)
Alpha Centauri
2.3 years 3.3 days
Centre of Milky Way
11 years 6.5 days
Andromeda Galaxy
15 years 8 days
Nearest Alien Civilisation? 100 M
19 years 9.5 days
Edge of observable universe
24 years 11 days
Edge of inflationary bubble?
70 years 28 days
Anyway, they suggest powering the worm-hole from base. Matter is
collected by the moving mouth and half of it is sent back to base. An
equal amount of anti-matter is then sent to the moving mouth. This is
combined with the mass it held and generated thrust.
Would this actually work ? At the high speeds they are talking about,
matter is going to be hitting the worm hole mouth at massive speeds.
Also, the background radiation is going to start picking up in
frequency from the forward direction. OTOH, this might actually help
as that means that the mouth would be more likely to intercept the
required matter.
If the mouth brings the matter to rest (relative to the mouth) and
then sends it backwards after (effectively) converting it to photons,
will this not still represent some drag ? (more to the point, the
incoming particles will be very 'hot')
Also, can you send anti-matter through the worm-hole in exchange for
matter ? Initially, I though that wouldn't work as it would violate
conservation laws. However, I guess 1 electron + 1 proton would equal
1 positron + 1 anti-proton for all the conservation laws.
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