I need a drawing I may have the stuff to build one already? Not even sure we need any money. Monroe > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [AR] Re: NASA test of quantum vacuum plasma thruster (was > "Anyone heardof this?") > From: rclague@xxxxxxxxx > Date: Mon, August 04, 2014 9:14 am > To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > One man proposes to build an experimental apparatus. Another man invokes > authority. > > > > One of these is science. The other is not. > > > > Clive, I'm in for $10. > > > > -R > > > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: David Gregory <david.c.gregory@xxxxxxxxx> > > Sender: arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 07:52:30 > > To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Reply-To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: [AR] Re: NASA test of quantum vacuum plasma thruster (was "Anyone > > heardof this?") > > > > You're going to spend 100k to test a machine that appears to violate > > Newton's third law? > > > > On Aug 3, 2014, at 11:14 PM, Michael Clive <clive@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > my idea is just,well, build enough of these things, test em, and let the > > data rule all. The math will come after. The capital outlay is in the 100k > > range, which is feasible for a crowdfund/private partnership. > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 9:04 PM, <joesmith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > In the late 1890's Marconi invented the wireless,working off the efforts > > > of such as > > > Henry,Maxwell and Hertz. > > > The world was changed overnight,forever after. > > > Logically we should have to ask not ''when'' but ''how soon'' and > > > ''who''. > > > Nobody can deny the technology exist,,but how do we tie it together as the > > > 20 year old Italian did?. > > > Don't you think that it is about time to come un-STUCK? > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 03 Aug 2014 17:47:11 -0700, "Monroe L. King Jr." < > > > monroe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > There is the theory Hawking Radiation (which was mostly proven wrong) > > > > > >> But there is the radiation emitted from black holes. It takes a hell of > > >> a gravity well to produce it. But as the particles reach the horizon > > >> it's like there it produces a particle and an anti particle and one > > >> falls over the horizon and the other escapes if they do no annihilate > > >> each other first. For me that explains why we have more matter than anti > > >> mater in our universe. Black holes sweeping up the floor all the time > > >> for eons. > > >> I am sure you guy's could care less what I think. But it's going to > > >> take a hell of a lot of energy to make the next breakthrough (like a > > >> tiny black hole) or being able to actually see the event horizon and > > >> measure something from a far off black hole (Like the massive one at the > > >> center of our galaxy) But Hawking was trying to explain why or where the > > >> matter goes? Why not a "Big Bang" on the other side? Why not if the > > >> gravity is so > > >> great the singularity smashes down so far to the Higgs or beyond and > > >> that energy is expelled into another universe? > > >> > > >> One thing is for sure they don't expel anything but some minor > > >> radiation in our universe. Where does all that matter go? > > >> > > >> Black holes do die! They eventually evaporate. > > >> Anyway bla bla bla. With no proof. > > >> Mathematics is like building skyscrapers with geometric shapes that > > >> seem to resemble something we call building blocks. Lots of ways to > > >> build something but eventually you reach the top. We have whole cities > > >> of blocks that over time we have made fit together. > > >> We are at the pinnacle of what we can do with our building blocks made > > >> of stone. So what we have to do now is discover steel and concrete. > > >> The new cities we build will look nothing like the ones we have now. > > >> Maybe a bit here some architecture there you can recognize. But beyond > > >> that it just wont be the same anymore. > > >> That's how far we have come. Pretty damn far! But we are so so so very > > >> far from understanding it all it's not even funny. > > >> Monroe > -------- Original Message -------- > > >> > Subject: [AR] Re: NASA test of quantum vacuum plasma thruster (was > > >> > "Anyone heard of this?") > > >> > From: Ian Woollard<ian.woollard@xxxxxxxxx> > > >> > Date: Sun, August 03, 2014 3:09 pm > > >> > To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > >> > > > If you have photons leaving in significant numbers you will have at > > >> least > > >> > some thrust; but that's a conventional photon rocket. Photon rockets > > >> give > > >> > very small thrust and are highly inefficient; it turns out that almost > > >> all > > >> > the energy leaves with the photons and hardly any ends up accelerating > > >> the > > >> > vehicle. (It's due to the extreme mismatch between the exhaust speed and > > >> > vehicle speed, you always want the two to be about the same-ish > > >> relative to > > >> > the launch frame of reference aka inertial reference frame.) > > >> > > Note that these thrusters have no photons leaving other than thermal > > >> ones > > >> > due to waste heat; they consist of sealed cavities filled with > > >> microwaves. > They claim that by quantum/relativistic/magic/somehow they > > >> will start > > >> > moving all by themselves. > > I'll only really believe it if it floats > > >> up into the sky and yanks the > > >> > power cord out of the wall. > > > On 3 August 2014 09:23, Steen Eiler > > >> Jørgensen<steen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> > > > Den 03-08-2014 02:09, Ian Woollard skrev: > > >> > > > > >> > > > There's essentially no chance that a thruster can work where you > > >> turn > > >> > > > it on, feeding only electricity through it, and with nothing leaving > > >> > > > it; where you switch it off, and you're now moving faster. This is > > >> > > > what the emdrive is claimed to do. > > > > >> > > Please define "nothing". Photons (e.g.) have no mass, but nonzero > > >> momentum. > > > > >> > > /steen > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > -- > -Ian Woollard > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >