Quote from: mlorrey on 06/03/2009 03:50 pmOk here's a conceptual design for a polywell powered space craft using both fusion heated thrust and Mach-Effect impulse powered by MaGrid power conversion.Read again the title of this thread and think again if this belongs here.
Ok here's a conceptual design for a polywell powered space craft using both fusion heated thrust and Mach-Effect impulse powered by MaGrid power conversion.
The vehicle you're proposing utilizes ordinary rocket propulsion.
I like it. How did you get the 7 meter core? I've never understood how to get a guess as to the size of the core w/cooling, shielding etc. given a fusion core. For the Poly one supposes the rings are superconducting and therefore probably YBCO cooled with N2. Since the core needs cooling right at the rings, it seems logical to me 7 meters is enough but I'm curious what the Talk Poly people say here.
“Then, is it thru the inertia wave that you link electromotive force with the force of gravity?”I wish I could say “Yes”, but at this stage of the game all I can say is that might be the case, but without more experimental data, my answer has to remain a “maybe”.
So, the "cap-electrode E-field induced acceleration vectors of each ...[ion]... will be countered by the equal and opposite vector accelerations..." This sounds like conservation of momentum, but it doesn't sound like forward motion. But then you go on to posit that the second "externally applied force" is that which accelerates the dielectric mass in the opposite direction. It is the periodicity of this force which you control to change directions of the mass at precisely the moment when it has "less" mass.When we were kids, we used to do this at the lake in rental canoes. You stand up in the canoe, and try to propel it forward by rhythmically pushing your body around, standing in a sort of surfer's pose. As you can imagine, it's virtually impossible, but a great deal of fun. Your paddle ball analogy (or whoever's) is more or less the same thing. This is where the conservation of momentum appears to break down.
If an electrical charge is moved, the effects on another charge do not appear instantaneously. The first charge feels a reaction force, picking up momentum, but the second charge feels nothing until the influence, traveling at the speed of light, reaches it and gives it the momentum. Where is the momentum before the second charge moves? By the law of conservation of momentum it must be somewhere. Physicists have found it of "great utility for the analysis of forces"[3] to think of it as being in the field.
I like the imagery of the lizard also, but the the lizard is pushing on a local physical medium. I've been thinking about fields, and the fact that their effects propagate at light speed, but I don't get yet what you're pushing against.