Re: Gravity Drive

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From: Yousuf Khan
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 00:00

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On Tue, 01 Apr 1997 23:40:22 -0500, Chris Wagner
<wagnerc@ucunix.san.uc.edu> wrote:

>> 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 this case you can. The usual frames of reference of action-reaction
don't apply when you are using the fabric of space itself as the propulsion
medium. 

>> 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.

Warp drive, gravity drive, inertialess drive, all the same thing.

					Yousuf Khan
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From: ykhan@achilles.net (Yousuf Khan)
Subject: Re: Gravity Drive
Date: 1997/04/05
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