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Re: Aether Displacement

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From: john291208
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:00
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On Jan 3, 1:44 pm, Sam Wormley <sworml...@mchsi.com> wrote:
> john291208 wrote:
>
> > Imagine a long pipe with perpetually spinning coins every few feet
> > that were slightly less than the diameter of the pipe. If these
> > coins spin randomly, as is the case overall in large bodies of
> > matter, you can't see through the pipe.
>
>    The light gits stopped by a spin'n coin further down the pipe
>    Light speed ain't infinite ya know!
>
Yes, unfortunately you can't do this to
arbitrarily large bodies of matter.
But if your spaceship is small enough that light speed
is not an issue, as I am sure most are, then you
can resonate it so in your preferred
direction you have very little inertia.

john
galaxy model
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Subject: Re: Aether Displacement
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