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From: thau@h-sc1.UUCP (robert thau)
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Subject: Re: FTL Techniques (masslessness)
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Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 15:19:26 EDT
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> 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 ...").
-- 
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