Earth To Mars In 3hrs **no Joke** |
Earth To Mars In 3hrs **no Joke** |
Jan 5 2006, 05:57 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 60 Joined: 22-October 04 Member No.: 102 |
Just got tipped off to this story
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=16902006 Here is the paper http://www.uibk.ac.at/c/cb/cb26/heim/theor...sicsaip2005.pdf They could feasibly have a prototype within 5 years!!! Happy New Year indeed everyone. |
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Guest_Richard Trigaux_* |
Jan 7 2006, 08:04 PM
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What disturbs me the most in this theory is not the bad pun (translate please I did not understood) but the four extra dimentions introduced without explanations. Of course this is legitimate if it makes a whole solid and complete theory, but at a moment we shall have to demonstrate the real existence of these dimentions.
(In the case of the Heim theory, they are not space dimentions as we understand it, but something else, eventually similar to the "imaginary" dimention in the vector describing an alternative current). On the other hand, we have a vacuum which has in fact many properties, such as to contain various fields, having physical constants, creating virtual particules, etc. This is much for something which is just vacuum! And when we see the gravitationnal field explained as a curvature of space, it is intuitive and tempting to explain each field as a curvature in a different way (in other dimentions, says Heim). Such theories, even if one day they prove false, are anyway useful. It is the process of science to test many theories, and not a mistake to keep at theories which later prove false. (The theories of Newton, of the aether, were first useful steps). Even in the field of physics, there are many competing theories, and tests currently compare experimental results with several competing theories. Some of these theories also involve other spatial dimentions, but "packed" in such a way that they don't appear at human scale. Heim also makes me think of Hawking: they are both severely communication disabled, both with an intense inner life and high theoretical level, and all producing though provoking theories. |
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Jan 7 2006, 08:38 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Jan 7 2006, 03:04 PM) What disturbs me the most in this theory is not the bad pun (translate please I did not understood) ... The Heimlich Maneuver, used to remove objects blocking people's throats if they are choking on them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimlich_maneuver -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Guest_Richard Trigaux_* |
Jan 7 2006, 10:53 PM
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QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jan 7 2006, 08:38 PM) The Heimlich Maneuver, used to remove objects blocking people's throats if they are choking on them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimlich_maneuver Thanks ljk4-1, for this important clarification. I was afraid of something more obscene, but it is still very efficient to make puke anyway. |
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