Amazing! Just like Mega-Maid™!
My hovercraft is full of eels.Don't ya go off insultin' perfectly good random sentence generators! Whadda they ever do to ya?
Reading too much of it may however lead to a Darwin award.I have a PhD in physics and published peer-reviewed work - albeit several decades ago before I changed career. I still keep abreast of developments in physics and I feel qualified to judge what is absolute flimflam. The thesis presented here, if one can call it that, reads like the product of a random sentence generator. It certainly isn't science. It wouldn't even win an Ig Nobel Prize.
Actually, I can fathom fairly well what he's envisioning, because a lot of these flights of fancy are based on the same thing: The notion that matter is unable to accelerate near or above c specifically because various physical effects manifest themselves to slow it down. Drag from other items. space barnacles, virtual black holes, and I don't know what all — this is at least the third time he's gone down this road. His solution every time, of course, is to somehow cancel these phenomena and bingo! you can reach light speed.
Now, back to the topic.
Perhaps the reason why FTL is not possible at this current time is because of the "glue" of gravity. As the Universe expands, like NASA has suggested, perhaps the mass that limits FTL will be stretched far enough apart to reduce the effects of objects attempting to travel to FTL and faster.
My son is an astrophysics Ph.D. student, as are several of his friends, and two others are theoretical physicists.I have a PhD in physics and published peer-reviewed work - albeit several decades ago before I changed career. I still keep abreast of developments in physics and I feel qualified to judge what is absolute flimflam. The thesis presented here, if one can call it that, reads like the product of a random sentence generator. It certainly isn't science. It wouldn't even win an Ig Nobel Prize.
It might amuse them. I expect they've heard similar. As a research student, one of the tasks one had to perform was responding to bizarre theories that members of the general public would mail to us. We had to explain patiently why their ideas didn't fit within the bounds of scientific knowledge and provide an alternative viewpoint based on what was accepted. Been there, done that and I'm damned if I'm going through it again.My son is an astrophysics Ph.D. student, as are several of his friends, and two others are theoretical physicists.
I'd get them to have a look but I feel I don't need the ridicule.
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