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Einstein's Alcove
Cavorite Gets its First Outing
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<blockquote data-quote="spiney" data-source="post: 166934" data-attributes="member: 192438"><p>Hey, hang on a moment .....</p><p></p><p>1) "Cavorite" has nothing to do with it (being a physically impossible notion that contradicts the conservation of energy, one of the "soundest" physical principles we know!).</p><p></p><p>(HG's moon trip wasn't so much "sci fi", but more like disguised social criticism! Unlike his other sci fi novels, which actually were sci fi! Cavorite was just a "plot device", not to be taken seriously!).</p><p></p><p>What's being suggested here is a "theoretically possible" method of very rapidly accelerating a spacecraft to almost lightspeed, without crushing the occupants (eg, see Larry Niven's Neutron Star, and Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity).</p><p></p><p>But, conservation of energy still holds, and anyway you've first got to find a "convenient mass", and then approach it at 57% the speed of light ........</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spiney, post: 166934, member: 192438"] Hey, hang on a moment ..... 1) "Cavorite" has nothing to do with it (being a physically impossible notion that contradicts the conservation of energy, one of the "soundest" physical principles we know!). (HG's moon trip wasn't so much "sci fi", but more like disguised social criticism! Unlike his other sci fi novels, which actually were sci fi! Cavorite was just a "plot device", not to be taken seriously!). What's being suggested here is a "theoretically possible" method of very rapidly accelerating a spacecraft to almost lightspeed, without crushing the occupants (eg, see Larry Niven's Neutron Star, and Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity). But, conservation of energy still holds, and anyway you've first got to find a "convenient mass", and then approach it at 57% the speed of light ........ [/QUOTE]
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