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New space travel
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NewScientist.com Take a leap into hyperspace * 05 January 2006 * From New Scientist Print Edition * Haiko Lietz EVERY year, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics awards prizes for the best papers presented at its annual conference. Last year's winner in the nuclear and future flight category went to a paper calling for experimental tests of an astonishing new type of engine. According to the paper, this hyperdrive motor would propel a craft through another dimension at enormous speeds. It could leave Earth at lunchtime and get to the moon in time for dinner. There's just one catch: the idea relies on an obscure and largely unrecognised kind of physics. Can they possibly be serious? .. . . But can the hyperdrive really get off the ground? The answer to that question hinges on the work of a little-known German physicist. Burkhard Heim began to explore the hyperdrive propulsion concept in the 1950s as a spin-off from his attempts to heal the biggest divide in physics: the rift between quantum mechanics and Einstein's general theory of relativity. .. . . |
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"Bob Fry" wrote According to the paper, this hyperdrive motor would propel a craft through another dimension at enormous speeds. It could leave Earth at lunchtime and get to the moon in time for dinner. There's just one catch: the idea relies on an obscure and largely unrecognised kind of physics. Can they possibly be serious? . . . But can the hyperdrive really get off the ground? The answer to that question hinges on the work of a little-known German physicist. Burkhard Heim began to explore the hyperdrive propulsion concept in the 1950s as a spin-off from his attempts to heal the biggest divide in physics: the rift between quantum mechanics and Einstein's general theory of relativity. . . . If you believe in visitors from other planets, you have to believe that there is some type of hyperdrive, or something like that out there. Otherwise, the whole alien thing is not doable. Are we on the edge of having that technology revealed? On that, I would have doubts. On the other hand, if not now, when? -- Jim in NC |
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New space travel
To quote Stephen Hawking when he was shown the warp drive on the
Star Trek TNG set (he was in for the premiere of his film at CalTech, distributed by Paramount), "yes, I'm working on that". |
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