SnipThey are obviously wrong in several ways SnipThey failed because they did not follow direction and their apparatus was flawed. They then came up with these objections that demonstrate they can't do the math or high school physics (no joke.)
In case I haven't been clear, there's a large number of tech savvy persons both writing in this thread and lurking. If any of you want to be included on Jim Woodward's weekly general mailing so you're up to date as to the work at Fullerton, please drop me a note. Write a sentence or two about who you are, what you do and why you're interested to track progress at Fullerton and Dr. Woodward may include this as an introduction to the list when he adds you, so that others know a little about you.
Quote from: GI-Thruster on 03/18/2009 12:30 pmSnipThey are obviously wrong in several ways SnipThey failed because they did not follow direction and their apparatus was flawed. They then came up with these objections that demonstrate they can't do the math or high school physics (no joke.) Sounds like the argument is applicable to both sides.
This thread has turned to crap with its nonsense talk of gag orders and the USG hiding things. Right up there with the oil companies buying up plans for 300 mpg carburetors and Area 51 alien technology.Anybody claiming such a thing has no credibility
Quote from: Celebrimbor on 03/16/2009 06:47 pmWow, this is a long sentence. I did look at the URL and I notice that this Woodward is in humanities.Woodward has his BS and MA in Physics. Trying to discredit him as some sort of sociologist playing at physics wont work.
Wow, this is a long sentence. I did look at the URL and I notice that this Woodward is in humanities.
The only true way to make a starship is to be able to create a spacedrive that can modifiy gravity and/or inertia. Everthing else talked about here except perhaps the EM drive is just for use on solar system scale missions. Gene Rodenberry pretty much nailed it when he created the Starship Enterprise that was equipped with inertia modification "impulse-drive" system for solar system based travels and a wormhole based "warp-drive" for interstellar jumps measured in days to weeks and not tens to hundreds of years for both the ship crew and the folks back home. If any of you are curious how this might be done, we have to look at the confulence of General Relativity and Quntum Mechancis to first find the means to transiently modify the inertial properties of mass by manipulating its stored energy and bulk acceleration of that mass relative to the distant stars. That Mach/Lorentz technology will provide us the Startrek like "impluse drive" we need to start down this path. We then use this same "gravinertial" technology to create traversalble wormholes shortcuts through spacetime that our starships can use to star hop. If you think this is all science fiction that's your privilege, but the peer reviewed experimental data showing that this is all possible with enough development effort put into it over the next 25-to-50 years is readily aviable on the web and elsewhere, like the American Institute of Physics (AIP) if you care to look for it.
These are people who are trying to shoe-horn reality into fantasy. It makes me feel quite ill.
It is playing to peoples fantasies and half-held beliefs. Its in the same league as cold-reading and sayances. For the most part I feel that people can believe what they like, so long as they can take reasonable criticism. However, this website is made of better stuff and I'm chatting away here merely to draw attention so that this thread might be closed down...