Astronomy / Space What drives my Star Ship
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Sorry, but you're the one who doesn't seem to have a clue about what you're talking about.
Your latest long reply to Edd was basically: "I don't understand what you're trying to explain to me, I'll skip these even more 'difficult' parts. I want to believe!"
All the hand-waving has been done by you.
So, think about the principles of the hot VASIMAR rocket. Talk about wicked cool. And this plasma device, is really what I actually imagine wildly to power the ED ships, but with the field engagement in reverse. Imagine the endless water balloon toy that always slides out of your hand. The sheets become your magnetic slipstream as you modulate the viscosity of the fields across thousands or millions of kilometers. The most inner part is your ship, and the two walls are also vast distances apart, with the inner wall becoming a glowing discharge like a comet on FIRE. Just like we are now in ED. 
In the far future centuries, we harness the power to 'ride' the natural high speed plasma flow in interplanetary space. Or better, 'scoop' it, store it, and then thrust it out, to go even FASTER. The amount of energy possible over millions-trillions of seemingly empty kilometers suddenly becomes something else.
In the far future centuries, we harness the power to 'ride' the natural high speed plasma flow in interplanetary space. Or better, 'scoop' it, store it, and then thrust it out, to go even FASTER. The amount of energy possible over millions-trillions of seemingly empty kilometers suddenly becomes something else.
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Nice but not exactly faster than light.
A rather more promising angle was raised in the early 70s and featured in the Sifi series, Blakes 7.
Time distortion.
Essentially, you enclose your vehicle in an envelope where time passes more slowly. Because the relative time, outside the envelope, passes much faster, it is possible for the vehicle to travel extremely long distances in short period in real time.
It takes a bit to get your head around it. Firstly, it seem very convoluted, then it seems illogical. But if you stick with the logic, eventually, it becomes rather clever and obvious.
A rather more promising angle was raised in the early 70s and featured in the Sifi series, Blakes 7.
Time distortion.
Essentially, you enclose your vehicle in an envelope where time passes more slowly. Because the relative time, outside the envelope, passes much faster, it is possible for the vehicle to travel extremely long distances in short period in real time.
It takes a bit to get your head around it. Firstly, it seem very convoluted, then it seems illogical. But if you stick with the logic, eventually, it becomes rather clever and obvious.
Just your regular relativistic rocket then, that Blakes 7 method.
Just your regular relativistic rocket then, that Blakes 7 method.
Basically.
Though note, the Blakes 7 ship travelled on the left hand side of the cosmos.
Oh yeah, there's that too.