:: caitmackenzie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thoughts I had during a boring afternoon in work: If you can
:: manipulate gravity, does that automatically give you an inertia-less
:: drive?
: throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Wayne Throop)
: No. Because, theoretically, momentum is still a conserved quantity,
: even if you can sling gravity/gravitons/whatnot around.
Oops, sorry. I read that as "reaction-less" by mistake.
But still... no. Your *spacecraft* will still have inertia.
You may be able to keep the interior in freefall (or 1g transverse
to your direction of acceleration like in all the TV shows) under large
accelerations, but I don't think that's quite the same thing. And you'd
still want seatbelts, if Star Trek is any indication.
Now, if you could manipulate the Higgs field, maybe....
but even then, it'd seem likely that momentum would be conserved,
so you'd still need some sort of reaction mass.
Wayne Throop throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://sheol.org/throopw
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