I always favored the Haisch Rhueda analogy of a car driving in a rainstorm, the density of the rain increases on the windshield as the car accelerates or an “equivalence” of a gravity well would be wind swept rain gusting against the windshield would also increase density.. the rain being an analogy for virtual particle density which increases equivalently with acceleration or a gravity well… as long as you don’t care about traveling into the distant future and have the energy and spaceship to accomplish it… But what about space warps? Where the size of these raindrops actually get smaller – I think this is what you have at nano scale when casimir effects concentrate areas wher larger virtual particles can not exist [or IMHO actually exist but dilate time to fit between the spatial boundaries] .. My point being what if you could create a macro warp where an object exists so far up a relativistic “hill” compared to open space that we on earth appear to be frozen in time in the same manner that we would perceive a spaceship approaching C.. It would be a retreat for the procrastinator to check in at the last moment and do his homework or write a paper 5 minutes before class because he could take days to accomplish his task and return at virtually the same time he entered the warp… IMHO the principles of catalysis are actually based on nano geometry and suppression of virtual particles where accelerated reactions are actually occurring at normal rates from the local perspective of the reactants. Fran
From: Eric Walker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 12:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Local Calculated Velocity of Space Ship On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 7:57 AM, David Roberson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I am confident that the world he sees before him will appear warped by his velocity when he compares notes to other spacemen traveling at a different clip. To compare notes, they will have to send him photons that are emitted from charged particles accelerated from pulsars and now in the TEv spectrum, so that he can detect them in the radio wave spectrum. Generations of descendants of the pilots of the near-light-speed observer that he passed will have come and gone in a nanosecond for him as he listens to Steely Dan on his tape cassette player and eats freeze dried astronaut food. His family and thousands of generations of their progeny will have passed away in a split second 6.022E23 earth years ago, while he whacks the 100Mz onboard flight computer to get the green phosphor screen to come back on. It is very interesting thought experiment. He's trying to approach an asymptote, which is always a losing proposition for practical people. Perhaps something on the planck scale is going to start getting in the way -- some fundamental constant is going to make it so that space is no longer continuous but is now big and blocky and no longer makes smooth flight possible. The meson experiment confirms that this occurs as well if you view the world from its point of view. Perhaps we should chew on that one next. Can you elaborate? Eric
