Re: opposite of relativistic time contraction

: Tim Little <tim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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: So then how do you accelerate whatever it is producing these fields?
: You seem to have a potential problem of "turtles all the way down".
: If you're accelerating a 10^17 kg black hole at 100 g, you need to
: apply 10^20 N of force to something else in the opposite direction.
: The minimum power requirements also rapidly get icky.

See "The McAndrew Chronicles" and the balanced drive.  If you assume
handwavium in the form of extremely dense matter arranged in a disk,
you can minimize the tides, and (iirc) keep the mass budget down.  
Even then, of course, you need zero point energy to make it work.


Wayne Throop   throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
   http://sheol.org/throopw