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Article #8321Re: Gravity Drive
From: Chris Wagner
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 00:00
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Yousuf Khan wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Mar 1997 21:57:06 -0500, Chris Wagner > <wagnerc@ucunix.san.uc.edu> wrote: > > >You're saying that the gravity drive will propel you faster than c. For > >this to be so, the gravity would have to propogate infront of the ship > >faster than c or else it would be overtaken by the ship itself! > >..Unless > >you want to sell the idea that gravity moves faster than c... > > Actually, your ship doesn't even have to move at all! It can stay perfectly > still and space itself will move around it, instead. Yeah. That's why this is a warp drive. But reletivly speaking, you *are* moving. Hence you can never overtake that which you are using as propulsion. > In fact, with a gravity drive, you have no need to worry about acceleration > crushing you to a pulp, because you won't be accelerating. This is called > an inertia-less drive, BTW. Exactly the same for Warp Drive. No inertia.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc19f,170da24f95ceef31 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc19f,public X-Google-Thread: 101d03,14c8003ac88779d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid101d03,public X-Google-Thread: 10b271,3f2794d78434d857,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10b271,public X-Google-Thread: 107568,170da24f95ceef31 X-Google-Attributes: gid107568,public X-Google-Thread: 10be1b,14c8003ac88779d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid10be1b,public X-Google-Thread: 10dd53,c2d61fdc569fd85e X-Google-Attributes: gid10dd53,public X-Google-Thread: 107319,14c8003ac88779d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid107319,public X-Google-Thread: 10e8c9,14c8003ac88779d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e8c9,public From: Chris Wagner <wagnerc@ucunix.san.uc.edu> Subject: Re: Gravity Drive Date: 1997/04/01 Message-ID: <3341E336.2AE3@ucunix.san.uc.edu> X-Deja-AN: 230038820 References: <5d2m8a$ncn@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> <332BD9F9.5E4C@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <5gi4ta$7mg1@chinook.generation.net> <332CD474.A96@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <332DAC44.6318@hotmail.com> <5gnvii$t00$4@news1.sympatico.ca> <332F8EA9.336F@flash.net> <Pine.OSF.3.95.970319 <5gsv2t$3qv@news.inforamp.net> <33322DC8.5FD1@eos.ncsu.edu> <5gvhqu$po$3@news1.sympatico.ca> <3334F3CD.312B@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <5h412t$br4$6@news1.sympatico.ca> <333F2801.1221@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <5hplrk$578$3@news1.sympatico.ca> Organization: University of Cincinnati, Chemical Engineering Reply-To: wagnerc@ieee.cas.uc.edu Newsgroups: sci.physics,rec.arts.startrek.tech,alt.startrek,alt.startrek.borg,aus.sf.star-trek,rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.startrek.current,alt.tv.star-trek.voyager,alt.tv.star-trek.ds9