Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site h-sc1.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!h-sc1!thau From: thau@h-sc1.UUCP (robert thau) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: FTL Techniques (masslessness) Message-ID: <535@h-sc1.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 15:19:26 EDT Article-I.D.: h-sc1.535 Posted: Thu Aug 15 15:19:26 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 08:17:37 EDT References: <2900@topaz.ARPA> <825@ncoast.UUCP> <1086@ames.UUCP> Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center Lines: 22 > First, you postulate anti-mass - not antimatter, but negative > mass. Its gravity pushes, and when it's combined with regular mass, you > get cancellation, nothing, no energy. > Anyway, you take approximately equal hunks of mass and anti-mass. > The mass is your spaceship, the anti-mass your "drive". Hook 'em together > (how?) (shut up, kid!), and the thing's inertialess (or nearly, depending > on how exactly you measure the mass and anti-mass), because the total > mass of the system's 0. It immediately flies off in the direction of > the mass-end of the system (the mass pulls the anti-mass, the anti-mass > pushes the mass) at a velocity approximating light. > Anybody seen any anti-mass lying around? :-) > > - From the Crow's Nest - Kenn Barry One other thing; you need to find Newton's third law and convince him to go on a coffee break. ("The mass pulls the anti-mass, the anti-mass pushes the mass ..."). -- Robert Thau \ Keeper of the *FLAME* )) rst@tardis.ARPA ( ( h-sc1%thau@harvard.ARPA \\