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- Sat Jan 10, 2015 5:06 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Mach Effect progress
- Replies: 2691
- Views: 930469
Re: Mach Effect progress
Your comment: He invented his Transactional Interpretation of QM, that like Woodward's theory, uses this Wheeler-Feynman advanced and retarded waves symmetry to get instantaneous action at a distance. And I think that given Wheeler-Feynman, Cramer and Woodward have all found this symmetry to answer ...
- Sat Jan 10, 2015 3:54 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Mach Effect progress
- Replies: 2691
- Views: 930469
Re: Mach Effect progress
I am wading my way through Heidi Fern's paper. Its a bit over my head although the parts I can grasp are quite interesting. It does prompt a question for you guys. Some time ago, David Bohm came up with what he called "pilot wave" theory to explain the phenomenon of quantum effects. Could "pilot wav...
- Fri Dec 05, 2014 5:48 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Firefly News
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10584
Re: Firefly News
Firefly has an interesting design. The cooling system is critical. The hurtle that has kept aerospikes from bring used in the materials issue with the plug getting too hot. If they can keep this cool and the self-pressurization (delivery of the fuel to the engine as the tank empties) works out, I th...
- Wed Nov 26, 2014 4:31 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Mach Effect progress
- Replies: 2691
- Views: 930469
Re: Mach Effect progress
I've known Charles Platt for over 20 years through the cryonics and life extension milieu. His article, as to be expected, is quite good. He is a good person to have interested in Woodward's Mach effect work as he is quite sympathetic for technological developments that improve life and create oppor...
- Sun Nov 23, 2014 7:45 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Google Engineers Say Renewable Energy ‘Simply won’t work’
- Replies: 57
- Views: 7866
Re: Google Engineers Say Renewable Energy ‘Simply won’t work
I raise a large portion of my vegetables, have a hydroponic garden, and use solar. Why you may ask? It is because this will be the wave of the future. The more self-reliant you are the better off you will be. Why? Because those that control the food and control the power will eventually be controll...
- Wed Nov 12, 2014 4:52 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: "High Frontier" space settlement video game
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6420
Re: "High Frontier" space settlement video game
A sustainable 1 gee acceleration drive allows for the ship to life off the surface of the Earth and to get to the Kuiper Belt in about 3 weeks travel time. No need for separate Earth to LEO launch vehicle and then transfer to interplanetary ship for deep space travel. It would be like the only 1940'...
- Fri Oct 31, 2014 5:39 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: 16th US-Japan Workshop on IEC Fusion
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9154
Re: 16th US-Japan Workshop on IEC Fusion
This meeting is now over. With the renaming and apparently closed venue, the topics and ideas have not been shared as in previous years. One wonders why... https://fti.neep.wisc.edu/iec2014 Dan Tibbets This is the standard pattern of how Japanese consortium are run. Several competitors get together...
- Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:10 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Mach Effect progress
- Replies: 2691
- Views: 930469
Re: Mach Effect progress
What material is that?Our material has not been fully characterized yet, but it appears to have more than 200*K thermal bandwidth.
- Fri Aug 22, 2014 3:34 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Decadence Is Not A Cause - It Is An Effect
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7972
Re: Decadence Is Not A Cause - It Is An Effect
Now if we can get the M-E thrusters working properly and open up a truly golden age of human spaceflight, Polywell rockets would give at least 70% of that effect and it is a surer technology. I doubt that. Remember, we've had the science down for decades how to build fission rockets and that has no...
- Thu Aug 21, 2014 3:28 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Decadence Is Not A Cause - It Is An Effect
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7972
Re: Decadence Is Not A Cause - It Is An Effect
I agree that functional societies have pioneering values and that a frontier is necessary to realize such. Since the whole Earth is now settled, we need to open up the space frontier to make this happen. Frederick Jackson Turner and Robert Heinlein have written extensively about the need for a front...
- Thu Aug 21, 2014 3:17 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Decadence Is Not A Cause - It Is An Effect
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7972
Re: Decadence Is Not A Cause - It Is An Effect
Again I ask, how is our current society "decadent"? This is an excellent question and one to which I doubt there is a simple nor easy answer. When I think of decadence I'm reminded of ancient Rome, which had grown so wealthy and lax from the Pax Romana that they turned to things like the gladiatori...
- Thu Aug 21, 2014 3:05 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Decadence Is Not A Cause - It Is An Effect
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7972
Re: Decadence Is Not A Cause - It Is An Effect
Again I ask, how is our current society "decadent"? This is an excellent question and one to which I doubt there is a simple nor easy answer. When I think of decadence I'm reminded of ancient Rome, which had grown so wealthy and lax from the Pax Romana that they turned to things like the gladiatori...
- Wed Aug 20, 2014 5:42 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Decadence Is Not A Cause - It Is An Effect
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7972
Re: Decadence Is Not A Cause - It Is An Effect
Well-recognized metrics of social behavior - crime, teen pregnancy, and drug abuse - have significantly improved in the past 20 years. Work ethic seems to be a function of opportunity. Young people become slackers during economic downturns. They become entrepreneurs when the economy is good (the dot...
- Sun Jun 29, 2014 4:25 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Moller's Skycar Is Coming
- Replies: 24
- Views: 19298
Re: Moller's Skycar Is Coming
Moller got in trouble with the SEC some years ago for claiming to prospective investigators that his "air car" was further along in development and ready to manufacturing when, in fact, it was not. There was an article about him in the Malaysian Straights Times that he was about to build a manufactu...
- Sun Jun 22, 2014 6:52 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Mach Effect progress
- Replies: 2691
- Views: 930469
Re: Mach Effect progress
According to "GIThruster" (and I see no reason to doubt this), Sonny White got a null result on both of his interferometry experiments, despite dialing up the sensitivity several orders of magnitude beyond what was called for in his original paper. That Sonny talks of a "non-null" result (rather tha...