<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Damien Broderick</b> <<a href="mailto:thespike@satx.rr.com">thespike@satx.rr.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<a href="http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=16902006">http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=16902006</a><br><br>Welcome to Mars express: only a three hour trip<br>IAN JOHNSTON SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT<br><br>AN EXTRAORDINARY "hyperspace" engine that could make interstellar space
<br>travel a reality by flying into other dimensions is being investigated by<br>the United States government.<br><br>The hypothetical device, which has been outlined in principle but is based<br>on a controversial theory about the fabric of the universe, could
<br>potentially allow a spacecraft to travel to Mars in three hours and journey<br>to a star 11 light years away in just 80 days, according to a report in<br>today's New Scientist magazine.<br><br>The theoretical engine works by creating an intense magnetic field that,
<br>according to ideas first developed by the late scientist Burkhard Heim in<br>the 1950s, would produce a gravitational field and result in thrust for a<br>spacecraft.<br><br>Also, if a large enough magnetic field was created, the craft would slip
<br>into a different dimension, where the speed of light is faster, allowing<br>incredible speeds to be reached. Switching off the magnetic field would<br>result in the engine reappearing in our current dimension.<br><br>
The US air force has expressed an interest in the idea<br><br>[etc]<br><br>wtf?</blockquote><div><br></div></div>If this is true and we could have had mass interplanetary travel, maybe even starships, 50yrs ago I am going to be sooooooo pissed off.
<br>More details here:<br><a href="http://www.americanantigravity.com/documents/AuerbachJSE.pdf">http://www.americanantigravity.com/documents/AuerbachJSE.pdf</a><br><br>The guy is wellknown amongst the AG community.<br><br>
Dirk<br>