Soldato
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- 29 Jun 2004
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Introduction
Right, get your thinking caps on.
You've seen Star Wars' Millennium Falcon travel at light speed!
You've seen Star Trek' Enterprise travel at light speed!
You've seen the ships of SG1 travel at light speed!
You've not seen modern day Earth NASA space shuttles travel at light speed!
Now i've got a theory that might just work! Just might
Background Info
A wise man once told me nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Granted that this is true, so far we've not broken no laws of Physics!
Now, light, is a funny entity. It's both, a wave and a particle at the same time. Hence, the wave-particle duality!
Now light, has both the properties of a particle and a wave, as proved by De Boglie's equation, f=λ/(mv) where f is the frequency, λ Planck's Constant and mv is mass multiplied by the velocity (momentum!).
Now, I was told when energy transfers happen in space, there is a conservation of energy, this is very important in my theory!
The Theory
During the explaination, please relate to the diagrams!
Now if the space ship can emit enough light from the (coincidently, I call them) sublight engines, then using conservation of energy, the ship should move really fast, at more or less light speeds. This occurs because the photons collide into the solid mass, but the solid mass doesn't move, so the ship does, as said in the conservation of momentum, by Newton! (Every action has an opposite but equal reaction) If this is true, my theory should work. It's broken down into more understandable steps below!
Step One:
The space ship is docked. It's trejectory is calculated and begins initial boosters.
As you can see the solid mass is directly behind the space shuttles engines. This will not move! It's a solid still body (this can be obtained by attatching it to the moon so it doesn't fly of)
Step Two:
As the space shuttles starts its sublight engines, the mass of the light, a lot of light in this case, causes the shuttle to jerk forward, and keep moving it forward to light speed due to conservation of energy!
This should work, I reckon
Right, get your thinking caps on.
You've seen Star Wars' Millennium Falcon travel at light speed!
You've seen Star Trek' Enterprise travel at light speed!
You've seen the ships of SG1 travel at light speed!
You've not seen modern day Earth NASA space shuttles travel at light speed!
Now i've got a theory that might just work! Just might
Background Info
A wise man once told me nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Granted that this is true, so far we've not broken no laws of Physics!
Now, light, is a funny entity. It's both, a wave and a particle at the same time. Hence, the wave-particle duality!
Now light, has both the properties of a particle and a wave, as proved by De Boglie's equation, f=λ/(mv) where f is the frequency, λ Planck's Constant and mv is mass multiplied by the velocity (momentum!).
Now, I was told when energy transfers happen in space, there is a conservation of energy, this is very important in my theory!
The Theory
During the explaination, please relate to the diagrams!
Now if the space ship can emit enough light from the (coincidently, I call them) sublight engines, then using conservation of energy, the ship should move really fast, at more or less light speeds. This occurs because the photons collide into the solid mass, but the solid mass doesn't move, so the ship does, as said in the conservation of momentum, by Newton! (Every action has an opposite but equal reaction) If this is true, my theory should work. It's broken down into more understandable steps below!
Step One:
The space ship is docked. It's trejectory is calculated and begins initial boosters.
As you can see the solid mass is directly behind the space shuttles engines. This will not move! It's a solid still body (this can be obtained by attatching it to the moon so it doesn't fly of)
Step Two:
As the space shuttles starts its sublight engines, the mass of the light, a lot of light in this case, causes the shuttle to jerk forward, and keep moving it forward to light speed due to conservation of energy!
This should work, I reckon
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