[PatrickHenry]

I donno about this one, but Dr. Felber seems like he's had a responsible career.

[PatrickHenry]

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[REDWOOD99]

This article was posted next year.

[OpusatFR]

Sure. What news. I can just see flying cars in the future. Not a happy thought for anyone in Hampton Roads who has to contend with the drivers from h$ll here.

[Brilliant]

You wonder why the Klingons have not paid us a visit, then.

[Screamname]

Human travel near the speed of light has already been proven and demonstrated countless times already by the French when they retreat.

[null and void]

Felber's research shows that any mass moving faster than 57.7 percent of the speed of light will gravitationally repel other masses lying within a narrow 'antigravity beam' in front of it. The closer a mass gets to the speed of light, the stronger its 'antigravity beam' becomes.

Oh??? If that is truly the case, one of the big barriers to FTL/near C travel vanishes. That was hitting individual atoms at that speed would generate a lethal shower of X-rays and secondary particles.

[Brilliant]

The jury is still out on whether Einstein's equations on general relativity were right, though. That's why they sent up a sattelite last year to test them.



Special relativity is the one that has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt.

[silverleaf]

Man someday may travel at the speed of light, but bureaucracies will still require at least 30 days to investigate customer complaints.

[Lancer_N3502A]

Sit Down, Shut Up and Hold On cause HERE WE GO AGAIN, AGAIN, AGAIN, AGAIN, AGAIN...

[Lancer_N3502A]

[keithtoo]

I was gonna do this, but I had to fertilize the lawn this weekend.

[RightWhale]

I also dunno about this one. There are an infinite number of possible solutions. Einstein rejected a 5-dimensional solution because it didn't feel right, which if we might use Einstein's gut as a guide, makes solutions less than nessarily true even if they are exact.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

NasaSpaceFlight.com is carrying the story, too...

An abstract from one of his papers on the subject (paper is readable in PDF)
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0505098


Shows up in Nasa Daily, too... for Feb 10.

Looks fairly legit, not a crackpot physicist.

[Drammach]

I donno about this one, but Dr. Felber seems like he's had a responsible career.

I just object to the idea of referring to it as "The Felber Drive"..

" Cap'n, the Felbers are out, we canna escape the Darwinians ! "

" That strange feeling as we approach Light Speed is known as the Felber Effect.."

" We're approaching Felber Speed, Sir ! "

No, I don't like it.. I don't like it at all....

[grey_whiskers]

The field equation of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity has never before been solved to calculate the gravitational field of a mass moving close to the speed of light. Felber's research shows that any mass moving faster than 57.7 percent of the speed of light will gravitationally repel other masses lying within a narrow 'antigravity beam' in front of it. The closer a mass gets to the speed of light, the stronger its 'antigravity beam' becomes.

Hmmm, an offshoot of the hypervelocity penetrators from the DoD? ;-)

Look at it this way, you have a 1-kg projectile going at 0.57 c. It is headed for a 50-ton tank initially at rest. From F=ma, there is NO WAY the repulsive force from the penetrator is going to accelerate the tank out of the way before impact. Scratch (and dent, and obliterate) one armored vehicle.

Full Disclosure: Yes, I knew people who worked on supercomputer modeling of projectile-armor dynamics. What of it?

Second Disclosure: YES, I *read* the article, and *YES* I'm aware that that's not what it's really about. . .

Cheers!

[operation clinton cleanup]

Thats all well an good... can we go back to the Moon already?

[bikepacker67]

Improbability Drive?

[martin_fierro]

It's the year 2000. I was promised a flying car. There are no flying cars. I don't wee any flying cars. Why? Why? Why?

[Grut]

I donno about this one, but Dr. Felber seems like he's had a responsible career.

Yeah, but as a project administrator, according to this. Also, he's kind of old to be doing innovative work; I suspect if there's anything to this at all, he's fronting for some much younger guys.

[VadeRetro]

So if you get to .57 the rest is free? How do you slow down?