On Thu, 30 May 1996 wbaird@NMSU.Edu wrote:

Actually, I'm going to have to take issue with the acceleration beyond the
speed of light bit being impossible.  ;)

Physics Geeking TIME!

The Casimir Effect takes place between two charged plates.  (VERY charged plates)
In between those plates the speed of light has been observed to be noticeabley
faster.  (<30 m/s faster).  They are trying to explain this, because the speed
of light is assumed to be a constant EVERYWHERE in a vacuum.  The best one to

Perhaps the charged particles are affecting space/time in a minute
section. Physists don't know everything yet, there may be a lot of ways to
manipulate vacuum with EM fields than known.

The next way was proposed by a Mexican Grad student at a Welsh University
(Albuquirre???).  He proved a way to go faster than the speed of light without
violating relativity.  Bloodyy brilliant, I say!!  He's stirred up a hornet's
nest.  It requires moving SPACE itself...nothing with mass can go faster than

Smart. An analogy could be like a place going through the air but it's
SHAPE makes going through the 'empty' air easier, and sometimes even
self-supporting.

the speed of light and the shortest amount of time between two objects is
the speed of light, but if you up and move a chunk of space where the speed of

I just love the speed of light, not. Sometimes it bothers me. Even with
physists explanations of this problem:

Say Jane is going 90%(less time dilation than say 99%) of the speed of
light north and Roy is going 90% of the speed of light south. When they
pass by each other, how fast does Roy perceive Jane to be going?

It just bothers me. ^_-

light is constant still internallly...;)  It requires a massiive positive mass
(x jupiter masses) in front of the ship and a equally massive NEGATIVE mass
(not antimatter...negative matter...the stuff you open up wormholes with) behind
you.  You don't experience acceleration (space is moving, 'not' you) and no time
dialation takes place as well as unlimited speeds are theoretically possible...
A nifty little twist I came up with is that you can use it as a 'weak' force field.
Geoffrey Landis and I discussed it and it works nicely...at mutliple earth masses
instead of jupiter...(4x earth and you can repell anythiing moving up to 20%
of the speed of light....).

Now if you can just generate gravity fields or something... ;)
Come to think of it, if every action has an equal an opposite re-action,
then what force is the opposite of gravity? Don't say anti-gravity.
If you don't know...think about it. ;) I don't. B>

Twister.

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