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On Fri, 28 Mar 1997 22:14:11 GMT, malcolm@pigsty.demon.co.uk (Malcolm
McMahon) wrote:

>>But you're limiting yourself to travelling only at the speed of light that
>>way. With a warp field, you have the possibility of faster than light.

>If, indeed, the warp drive is possible.

Anything not explicitly prohibited can happen. In this case, there is no
explicit prohibition on the speed of expansion of space.

It happened at the beginning of the big bang, to get the early universe
expanded out to a large enough size to not fall back in immediately. It's
probably still happening to this day in the universe, at the edges of the
universe, they are probably expanding away faster than the speed of light
away from us, and we can't see a thing past that distance.

>>Anyways, your way wouldn't work. Once you make a particle of matter get rid
>>of its attraction for mass, it ceases to be a particle of matter and
>>becomes a particle of some other kind of energy. You no longer will have a
>>proton, but instead you may have a photon of the same energy level as a
>>proton. Yes, you've achieved light speed this way, but how are you going to
>>become matter again?

>Hopefully it would work by excluding Higgs particles from the area,
>without changing the intrinsic nature of the particles. One the
>particles passed out of the affected area of space they would.
>hopefully, revert to their normal behaviour.

In order to stop attracting higgs bosons, you would have to take away their
ability to generate gravitons. Gravitons would be the essential force
carrier mechanism within matter particles to attract Higgs bosons.

Personally, I like being matter, I think you like being matter too. I
imagine it's the best state of energy to be in. I think it would suck being
a photon. :-)

>Actually, the cannon ball stretches the surface everywhere. And thats
>the problem.

That's because the direction of the gravitons is unfocused. All you would
need to do is focus the gravitons in a certain direction. A graviton laser
beam of a kind. You can stretch only the directions of space you think most
necessary. You also optimize your usage of gravitons, given such a small
amount of mass that you will be given.

						Yousuf Khan
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Yousuf J. Khan
ykhan@achilles.net
Ottawa, Ont, Canada
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