[extropy-chat] unidirectional thrust

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Dirk Bruere <dirk at neopax.com> wrote:
> Mike Lorrey wrote:
> 
> >--- Keith Henson <hkhenson at rogers.com> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Mind you, I *wish* such a thing existed and would be delighted if
> it 
> >>did.  But energy to thrust doesn't work--another way to put it is
> >>"wrong units."
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >The problem is he is doing newtonian math on a problem that is
> properly
> >solved using Lorentz equations, so of COURSE he is going to get an
> >absurd answer. This is one more case of a person using, as I said
> >before, 100% newtonian thinking in a problem which such thought is
> >entirely inapplicable to.
> >  
> >
> At the speeds we did the analysis eg a few km/s, Lorenz correction is
> negligible.

You are assuming. And, as I showed, the assumptions by which you looked
at a few km/s were faulty.
> 

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com


		
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