Posted on 01/17/2014 7:17:49 AM PST by 12th_Monkey
Everyone knows the only true way to conduct interstellar travel is through the use of an Infinite Improbability Drive.
Heisenberg was stopped by the police while driving at 95 mph. The officer asked, "Do you know how fast you were going?" To which Heisenberg replies, "No, but I know where I am."
I have no clue as to the science but the concept reminds me of the first person to consider using moving water to power a mill.
Exploiting space’s natural resources.
You're right as to a definition of "spaghettification". I was thinking in terms of the dimensionality of space-time as one approaches a black hole, as seen from an outside observer's perspective. ie, a clock would appear to tick more and more slowly, as in the light clock example below.
In Relativity, the effects of gravity and accelerated motion are basically indistinguishable, and so the illustration below can be used to depict either a state of relative motion or a gravitational field.
The graphic below that shows how the space-time frames are increasingly stretched as you get closer to a black hole, or any considerably massive object. The more they're stretched, the more time dilation occurs.
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All black holes eventually evaporate. They’re believed to emit radiation (Hawking radiation) in both thermal and gamma ranges. Also, black holes have magnetic fields, which, in interacting with the environment, can sap energy (and hence mass) from the hole. And we (I) don’t know much about how gravitational forces can figure in to such equations, especially when you start getting into such tiny quantum scales. In fact, most calculations start breaking down with such tiny sizes, and you can’t add much mass when the target is already so small.
“Every so often, a physics paper will appear claiming that black holes don’t evaporate. Such papers quickly disappear into the infinite junk heap of fringe ideas”.
-Leonard Susskind
Lol.
The Uncertainty Principle:
In quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle is any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle known as complementary variables, such as position x and momentum p, can be known simultaneously.
For instance, in 1927, Werner Heisenberg stated that the more precisely the position of some particle is determined, the less precisely its momentum can be known, and vice versa.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Oh, do you like it? I’m not partial to desserts myself, but this is excellent.
Einstein was reportedly once stopped by the same highway patrolman. He told the officer that, according to his frame of reference, he was at rest and the cop was doing 95.
so the hole is plugged by matter and it evaporates because nothing can get in yo fuel it.
well the complainers can take it up with the physicists.
HA!
dyson shell is a new one, heard of dyson sphere, never shell.
That picture looks like something my wife baked.
I’ve heard of the singularity drive, didn’t know it had an actual name. warrants some additional reading on my part.
Of course it doesn’t do you much good if you
approach your target star at the speed of light
if you can’t STOP, not to mention course corrections.
That is where the folded universe method might have
advantages...
it would seem that you would need to start deceleration about the time you got up to top speed. I think it’s supply of matter would come from space itself. It’s rich in hydrogen, helium, carbon and other elements. Guy named Bussard proposed collecting free hydrogen with magnetic fields to use as a fuel source.
I’m good with that as long as it doesn’t cause me to turn into Obama.
Reality restored
as long as the process doesn’t have the word “fracking” in it, no one will care
Physics bookmark.
even large ones? thought evaporation was limited to micro black holes.
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