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Re: Aether Displacement

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From: Sam Wormley
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:58
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john291208 wrote:
> 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
> 

   The "long pipe" is now a "short pipe" and the spinning is "very slow"
   relatively speaking.
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