Dan Minette wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Seeberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 8:55 PM > Subject: Re: Physics question > > >> Kevin Street wrote: >>> The Fool wrote: >>>> But what if the apparatus is cooled to very close to absolute 0? >>>> Like some kind of bose-einstein condensate? >>> >>> I suspect that the theoretical lower limit of cooling would still >>> fall short of the kind of stillness needed to get an interesting >>> displacement in space. But I don't know, maybe the math would say >>> different. >> >> My take on that question is that at the temperatures needed to >> cause >> such a displacement, the theoretical space probe would lose >> structural and operational integrity. >> >> At very cold temps some kinds of molecular bonds become very weak >> and >> if the displacement transmission is in any way turbulentthe craft >> just might disintegrate. > > Good try, but that's not it.
But is my point accurate? Wouldn't the more complex materials be degraded at absolute zero? (To unworkability?) > You were right about there being no > absolute space....it's just that even if the Fool properly referred > to uncertainty in the momentum instead of absolute zero momentum, > there would still be quite a few problems. Even at absolute zero, > the wave function that describes the entire spacecraft has a > delta-momentum as well as a delta-x. Dan M. And for an object to have absolute zero momentum in a relativistic universe the entire universe and every object in it would also have to have absolute zero momentum. xponent Memo To The Man Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
