Earth To Mars In 3hrs **no Joke** Options

[Marslauncher]

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.

[Guest_Richard Trigaux_*]

An interesting test of Heim theories could come from natural phenomenon with high magnetic fields and large masses of fast moving matter: black holes accretion disk, neutron stars, and especially neutron stars with high magnetic field (magnetars).

The models of such bodies should be explainable only with Heim theories. Especially it is not yet understood why all these bodies emit axial jets of matter, eventually at nearby light speed. It is not obvious why this axial movement occurs in systems completelly dominated by rotational movements. Eventually they would result of the two alternate gravitationnal forces predicted by Heim theories. There is just a little hitch to this: such jets also occur during the formation of the solar systems, where high magnetic fields are not expected.

[Bob Shaw]

I thought that during the T-Tauri phase there *were* high magnetic fields, as evidenced locally by the heating experienced by chondrules during their formation?

Bob Shaw

[ljk4-1]

Astrophysics, abstract
astro-ph/0512117

From: Jos\'e Antonio Jim\'enez Madrid [view email]

Date (v1): Mon, 5 Dec 2005 18:16:18 GMT (11kb)
Date (revised v2): Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:46:25 GMT (12kb)

Chaplygin gas may prevent big trip

Authors: José A. Jiménez Madrid (IAA, Granada & IMAFF, Madrid)

Comments: 6 pages, no figures, uses Revtex. Version accepted for publication in Physics Letters B. Discussion of results revised and expanded. Seven new references have been also included

Report-no: IMAFF-RCA-05-11

This paper deals with the study of the accretion of a generalized Chaplygin gas with equation of state $p=-A/\rho^\alpha$ onto wormholes. We have obtained that when dominant energy condition is violated the size of wormhole increases with the scale factor up to a given plateau. On the regime where the dominant energy condition is satisfied our model predicts a steady decreasing of the wormhole size as generalized Chaplygin gas is accreted. Our main conclusion is that the big trip mechanism is prevented in a large region of the physical parameters of the used model.

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512117

[ljk4-1]

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=541

On Travel Close to Lightspeed

In a paper to be delivered tomorrow at the Space Technology & Applications International Forum (STAIF) in Albuquerque, Franklin Felber of Starmark Inc. (San Diego) will present research on the gravitational field of a mass moving close to the speed of light.

Without seeing Felber’s work, Centauri Dreams is reluctant to comment on his assertion in an article on the Physorg.com site:

http://www.physorg.com/news10789.html

that “…a mission to accelerate a massive payload to a ‘good fraction of light speed’ will be launched before the end of this century…”, other than to say that STAIF is a venue where fascinating ideas routinely emerge, not all of which stand up to scrutiny.

The paper is titled “Exact Relativistic ‘Antigravity’ Propulsion,” and it is followed by another intriguing title, “The Alcubierre Warp Drive in Higher Dimensional Spacetime,” by Eric Davis and H.G. White. Also worthy of attention is James Woodward’s “Mach’s Principle, Flux Capacitors, and Propulsion.” More on all three as information becomes available. You can find the entire STAIF schedule here:

http://www.unm.edu/~isnps/staif/2006/