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Betruger wrote:Those two links above seem to have gotten lost in the html translation. The ellipse was written into both the text abreviation and URL.

Try this one: http://www.cphonx.net/weffect/alt.php and then click on this:
STAIF-2007 MLT Powered Spacecraftcourtesy Paul March

Could someone Neil deGrasse Tyson or Carl Sagan this concept for me, please? Here's what I think I understand: Apply a high voltage to a piezoelectric material and its mass changes. Somehow, this mass change will cause a thrust. A thrust relative to what? I don't get this part at all. Is it directi...

Ok, I think I get how the MLT works, which I'll probably disprove by asking this question: How do you control an MLT's direction of thrust? ie, you gimble a rocket motor to turn or manuever. What do you do to an MLT to change the direction of the force? Or is that something that still has to be wor...

Yeah, but once the engines SHUT OFF, gravity takes over. I'm not talking about stability in flight; I'm talking about passive landing stability. Even a sphere has this problem. If one of the legs breaks, well... spheres roll. A helicopter also has a problem if the engines decide to fail. Sure, you ...

Hi Paul March & all One question I've wondered since Woodward's ideas first surfaced was just where does the kinetic energy of the space-vehicle come from? Does his theory actually explain that? Is it conserved overall? "Where does the kinetic energy of a Mach-drive vehicle come from?" Simple, it's...

If there are sufficient legs, it wont. I would have telescopic legs that can be adjusted to the terrain. Also I would have them be tilted outward for greater stability. I still don't like it. Imagining this thing trying to set down on a substantial grade gives me the willies - you'd need enormously...

I wonder if a "relativistic missile defense system" would be possible. I mean, how to detect something travelling near light speed (unless we detect the fabled tachyon emissions (if any) from such objects??? its like trying to defend against a bullet shot from a distance against your eye. The momen...

Paul, do you agree that if your spacecraft propulsion method turns out to be true, it will be so simple to accelerate anything close to lightspeed that relativistic weapons will be the most common weapons in the universe (in this case, I hope no et civilization comes in contact with us until we are...

Please let me know the specification for the desired dielectric for both examples of M-E thrusters. Presumably these would either have to be single crystal or, if multi-crystaline, nanosized grains. If multi-crystaline, internal stress is going to be a problem. Presumably these have to be fabricate...

I've just done some searching. The only theoretical critique of Mach effect I have found is Robertson 2000 The case for inertia as a vacuum effect: a reply to Woodward & Mahoud This is a strongly pro vacuum fluctuation cause of inertia but also makes quite a number of independent criticisms of Wood...

I'm also curious, given Dr Woodward's health, what would happen to this research if he had to give up his work, or worse. I can't think of any perfectly polite way to say it, so I apologize for sounding so rude - but would ME research be as lucky as the Bussard Polywell research be with EMC2 pickin...

This is one reason I've started to warm to the saucer shape, although the cigar shape with decks parallel to the long axis could work too. I prefer the sphere shape. It has many advantages, e.g. pressures and structural loads are spread evenly over the surface of a sphere. The surface area versus t...

I have a question about the dielectric material necessary for the Mach experiments. Is this the major engineering hurtle right now? Is the material cited in the powerpoints, BaTiO3, sufficient for realizing a demonstration device? Or do you need a better material? What about grain size? The current...

I have a question about the dielectric material necessary for the Mach experiments. Is this the major engineering hurtle right now? Is the material cited in the powerpoints, BaTiO3, sufficient for realizing a demonstration device? Or do you need a better material? What about grain size? The current...

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/New_Antigravity_Solution_Could_Enable_Space_Travel_Near_Speed_Of_Light.html ...so is this guy recommending accelerating a spaceship by throwing a star at it at three quarters of the speed of light? . Yeah, that's what I get from the article too. Seems completely no...