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@Green Baron The author herself has some more thoughts [1]. Personally, my view is that the money could almost certainly be better invested in several, less expensive projects with defined goals and targets (which the FCC doesn't really have).
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For your reference, an opinion (from a physicist) about why pouring billions into a giant supercollider might not be such a great idea. [1]
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Simply, they inject it at a higher pressure than the combustion chamber pressure. It's why most engines rely on turbo pumps to pump the fuel.
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Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical questions
Steel replied to DAL59's topic in Science & Spaceflight
This is why some physicists think parts of theoretical physics are loosing their usefulness. People spend time making lots of very clever theories by looking only at the mathematics, but do not worry whether or not they actually relate to our universe. -
Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical questions
Steel replied to DAL59's topic in Science & Spaceflight
As far as I understand it, the negative root is still valid from a purely theoretical standpoint (as it is in many equations) however we have no evidence for negative masses, and many cosmological theories do not allow for it, so the root is ignored. -
Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical questions
Steel replied to DAL59's topic in Science & Spaceflight
No. It doesn't matter what is providing the acceleration (even if it is a massive, physics breaking, free energy machine) you cannot accelerate a massive object to, or past, the speed of light. -
An idea that popped into my mind last night
Steel replied to lajoswinkler's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Short answer: no. Simplifying it massively, for heat to be transferred between two particles, you require energy to be transferred between the two (i.e one particle loses energy, the other gains it). Just because two particles have their states entangled doesn't mean that energy is transferred between the two, so it's not a mechanism that can be used to transfer heat. Also on a side note, the concept of "heat" at the level of quantum particles doesn't really mean very much, heat is very much a macroscopic phenomenon.- 1 reply
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82km, which is space in the USAF definition (above 80km), but not above the Karman line.
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New Theory of Dark Matter And Dark Energy Utilizing Negative Masses
Steel replied to kmMango's topic in Science & Spaceflight
https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2018/12/no-negative-masses-have-not.html?spref=tw&m=1 A reaction. Picks up on something key that I missed when reading the paper originally. The paper required these negative mass particles to repel each other, where as in general relativity they would attract. -
New Theory of Dark Matter And Dark Energy Utilizing Negative Masses
Steel replied to kmMango's topic in Science & Spaceflight
It's interesting work, and the results are notable. However, the paper is far from extensive and a simulation of 50,000 particles is not much to shout about, so I'd stop well short of jumping to any conclusions without further, more detailed, corroborating work. The biggest hangup for me is that his model is for a "continuously-created negative mass substance". There's something about requiring a substance that has to be constantly created in order for it's effects not to be diluted by spacetime expansion that just doesn't feel right to me - completely non-scientific, I know. -
Are there any books like the Martian that anyone would recommend?
Steel replied to Athen's topic in Science & Spaceflight
I don't think Artemis and The Martian have much in common other than their author in all honesty. I loved The Martian, but Artemis didn't hit any of the same good points for me personally. I'd heartily second the earlier recommendation of KSR's Mars Trilogy. I've only read Red Mars, but it's hands down amazing and I've already lined up the other two. -
Ammonia / Hydrogen Peroxide propellant properties?
Steel replied to AeroGav's topic in Science & Spaceflight
According to this post you get an ISP of about 260 s for HTP(95%)/Ammonia mixture.