Re: If NOT a reactionless drive, will it work?
From: vernonner3voltazim (vnemitz_at_pinn.net)
Date: 07/11/04
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Date: 11 Jul 2004 02:24:53 -0700
"Andrew B. Park" <novakyu@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<ccpd11$k68@odbk17.prod.google.com>...
> vernonner3voltazim wrote:
> > Consider a powerful infrared laser. In Space the beam of photons
> > goes one way, so in accordance with Action and Reaction the laser
> > must go the other way. But since infrared photons are invisible,
> > the motion of the laser will LOOK "reactionless". Can anything
> > else do something like that?
>
> How anthropo-centric of you! What do you mean infrared photos are
> _invisible_? Do you suppose every living being is like humans in that
> they can see only the "visible range" of EM spectrum? Granted, most
> animals with vision on earth are similar to humans in that way, but
> what does that have anything to do with physics itself?
While Physics purports to be independent of humanity, it is
still derived from our perceptions of events in Nature -- and
by the perceptions of our instruments. Those perceptions are
not always perfectly accurate (Aristotle's laws of motion are
mistaken, according to Galileo and Newton, for example -- and
Newton's laws are incomplete, according to Quantum Mechanics
and General Relativity).
> I suppose you are the kind of person who will believe a dog
> whistle is a magic, since you, a perfectly fine human being,
> can't hear it. If you do, I have a magically enchanted item
> to sell you, at a bargain price of one million dollars.
No, I am the kind of person who wants to know how things
work. AND I am the kind of person who knows that simple
laws have few loopholes, while complex laws often have
exceptions and special cases and so on. SO, if I encounter
someone who claims to have a reactionless drive, then I
want to (1) see if it works at all, by passing the pendulum
test for example, and (2) assuming it works, does it REALLY
violate Newton's Third Law, or just exploit a loophole?
Gravity waves carry momentum, after all!
THEREFORE:
> > Well, here is a proposed device (virus-proof .RTF file):
> > http://www.nemitz.net/vernon/artrr.rtf
> > and an associated (somewhat large) .GIF image:
> > http://www.nemitz.net/vernon/Loops.gif
> >
Let me know what you think! Thanks in advance!
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