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From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: FTL Techniques (masslessness)
Message-ID: <6118@duke.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 16:05:27 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 19 16:05:27 1985
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Reply-To: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
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In article <535@h-sc1.UUCP> thau@h-sc1.UUCP (robert thau) writes:
>>		... 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 ...").
No problem.  Delta-momentum is zero, since total mass is zero; therefore 
no ``force'' is involved, since F = 0a == 0 for all a.  What I don't follow 
is why it only goes about _c_.

And what happens if your anti-mass is slightly *larger* than your mass (so
sum mass for the system is < 0)?

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			Charlie Martin
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