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Thread: Harold White's warp drive and OA
Post: RE: Harold White's warp drive and OA
| http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/science/faster-than-the-speed-of-light.html?_r=1&
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07-25-2013, 09:21 AM |
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Thread: Black Hole Starships
Post: RE: Black Hole Starships
| Thanks for the thorough explanation Todd, that does help. If I could make a suggestion, it might be worth adding some more explanation in the layman's guide to wormholes. I've been reading the article... |
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General Setting Discussion
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06-17-2013, 06:28 AM |
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Thread: Black Hole Starships
Post: RE: Black Hole Starships
| Yeah, I'm aware of the Visser effect that effectively prevents time travel in the OA universe, I was referring more to the comparative ease in which he describes them being manipulated/moved around. I... |
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06-16-2013, 09:07 AM |
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Thread: Black Hole Starships
Post: RE: Black Hole Starships
| Steve raises an interesting point. The reason the particle beam system is suggested in the paper is because, as far as I know, magnetic systems wouldn't work, and the black hole would destroy any mate... |
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06-16-2013, 07:06 AM |
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Thread: Black Hole Starships
Post: RE: Black Hole Starships
| I completely forgot about that. I read through that paper months ago, and I remember that bit about particle beams not making a whole lot of sense to me, and my understanding of physics is very limite... |
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06-14-2013, 05:44 PM |
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Thread: Magmatter Question
Post: RE: Magmatter Question
| http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/48572566653b6
"Civilizations looking for relic monopoles typically begin searching within the cores of gas giants. More advanced civilizations look within neutro... |
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06-14-2013, 05:48 AM |
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Thread: Black Hole Starships
Post: Black Hole Starships
| http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1803
Are there any black hole starships in the OA universe? I know that there are artificial black holes created for various industrial uses, such as Hawking's knots, ... |
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06-14-2013, 05:14 AM |
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Thread: Plastic Radiation Shielding
Post: Plastic Radiation Shielding
| http://www.azom.com/news.aspx?newsID=37134
Apparently, plastic can make for an effective radiation shield. |
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06-14-2013, 04:51 AM |
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Thread: Harold White's warp drive and OA
Post: RE: Harold White's warp drive and OA
| http://archive.thespaceshow.com/shows/1923-BWB-2013-01-04.mp3
Here is an interview with Harold White and Eric Davis regarding the paper and the experiments.
It looks like his more recent paper (the ... |
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06-11-2013, 05:20 PM |
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Thread: Harold White's warp drive and OA
Post: RE: Harold White's warp drive and OA
| http://earthtech.org/publications/davis_STAIF_conference_2.pdf
Here is White's 2011 paper. Unfortunately, it's miles over my head. |
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05-28-2013, 10:40 AM |
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Thread: Harold White's warp drive and OA
Post: RE: Harold White's warp drive and OA
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Drashner1 Wrote: (05-10-2013, 11:31 AM)
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Actually, if I'm reading this right the ship would go from .2c to 20x c, not 200% (or 2x) c.
I have no idea if this is a reasonable idea or not. In OA, we... |
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05-10-2013, 03:47 PM |
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Thread: Harold White's warp drive and OA
Post: RE: Harold White's warp drive and OA
| The Pdf on the NASA site was taken down, but I still have his paper on my computer (it was freely accessible on the NASA site). This is the bit I found most interesting. His version acts as a FTL "boo... |
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05-08-2013, 12:05 PM |
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Thread: Fermi Paradox and Percolation Theory
Post: RE: Fermi Paradox and Percolation Theory
| I'm curious; over the course of hundreds of millions of years, wouldn't remnants of extinct civilizations spread out over the galaxy due to the drift of stars from their original relative positions? I... |
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05-06-2013, 07:41 AM |
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Thread: Transiting Hayward Wormholes
Post: RE: Transiting Hayward Wormholes
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Drashner1 Wrote: (05-03-2013, 12:17 PM)
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This radius relates to the asymptotic flatness requirements for traversable wormholes of the type used in OA. For the details, see the two linked papers at ... |
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05-03-2013, 02:03 PM |
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Thread: Transiting Hayward Wormholes
Post: RE: Transiting Hayward Wormholes
| In regards to the traversable wormholes, I noticed that the layman's guide says, "Modern wormholes are consistently 327 Astronomical Units (A.U.s) in radius from the region of flat-space to the wormho... |
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05-03-2013, 05:24 AM |
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Thread: Harold White's warp drive and OA
Post: RE: Harold White's warp drive and OA
| http://spaceref.com/nasa-hack-space/propulsion/clarifying-nasas-warp-drive-program.html
Interesting investigation relating to the recent Popular Science article on the subject. Unsurprisingly, it see... |
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04-29-2013, 04:55 AM |
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Thread: Stanford Torus On The Big Screen!
Post: RE: Stanford Torus On The Big Screen!
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stevebowers Wrote: (04-23-2013, 05:04 AM)
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I don't see anything wrong with the depiction of Elysium, except that it is in low Earth Orbit, wheras it would be a lot safer in a much higher location (... |
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04-24-2013, 05:24 AM |
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Thread: Stanford Torus On The Big Screen!
Post: RE: Stanford Torus On The Big Screen!
| Check out the websites. The worldbuilding is incredible.
http://armadyne.net/ The "corporate" website
http://www.civilcooperationbureau.com/ The Civil Cooperation Bureau site
http://www.welcomet... |
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04-21-2013, 09:34 AM |
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Thread: Harold White's warp drive and OA
Post: RE: Harold White's warp drive and OA
| Thank you very much for the informative response. As you said, even if this is a problem, it would just be another in a long list of problems for FTL warp drives, which doesn't surprise me nor do I fi... |
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04-21-2013, 09:21 AM |
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Thread: Fermi Paradox and Percolation Theory
Post: RE: Fermi Paradox and Percolation Theory
| Thanks! That helps clarify things considerably. |
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