> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Robert Seeberger > >> > >> 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?) >
I would think they would make pretty poor probes, and worse to travel in. > > 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. > I would have thought that was the case anyway. Surely the universe does have zero momentum? Doesn't it? Andrew _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l