It is said when Albert Einstein was just sixteen a thought crossed his mind of what would it be like to ride a beam
of light. In other words traveling in parallel with light speed.
As early as 1960 the BBC hit the British airways with Doctor who the opening theme probably the earliest video
graphic example of hyperspace was like. It wasn't till 1966 CBS TV studio begin planning for a Star trek adventure.
CBS wanted a plan for routinely traveling at light speed that become known as warp drive latter years expressed
as hyperspace in the Star Wars franchise. Fans had a panoramic front seat vision of what it hyperspace would be like though Hans Solo's
Cockpit window.
At one point in world war two the aircraft carrier Enterprise was the only carrier the Americans had. It was a
lucky ship surviving crippling hits after crippling hits and survived the whole war intact. The final sequence of the credits of every
star trek episode, ( Including the Next Generation, and Voyager ), the ships would stretch like a rubber band and snap forward disappearing into
infinity a visual example of stationary observers observing a ship accelerating to light speed.
Details of the invention didn't immerge until the next Generation star trek movie called first contact. The plot
was about the first successful test of warp drive ship ever by the inventor Zepheon Cockron. History was entangled with
the Enterprise back in time to prevent the Borg invasion of earth, the crew of the Enterprise helped Zephron Cockron launch the first ever
warp drive ship, and allow first contact of the Vulcan's to take place. The original idea of how the engine worked was
well known as far back as the original series involving antimatter. What's antimatter?
Over eighty years ago an English theoretical Physicist Paul Diac proposed matter may have a mirror image of itself. The idea came to Diac from the crowing study of the particle physics of the atom called Quantum physics.
Matter was well known to be made up of atoms seen as a cloud of outer orbiting particles called electrons orbiting at
light speed scales round and round central core particles called neutrons and protons making up the nucleus
of the atom.
The orbiting electrons were seen as a negative electrical charge the nucleus particle called a proton as positive and
the other particle in the nucleus no charge. Daic proposed what if it was possible there are positively charged electrons and negatively
charged protons. I can imagine the question what if electrons, and protons were neutral and neutrons were electrically
charged?
The one thing classical physics and quantum physics has in common opposite charges react to each other. We can see this in action with magnets. We all
find out about magnetism playing round with magnets discovering not only do they stick to one another but
equally push each other away with some considerable equal force. It was once proposed the neutrality of the neutron in
the nucleus isolated the protons from repelling each other. I'd imagine electrons repelling each keeps them circling at
a velocity fast enough not to be attracted into the nucleus something similar to the velocity of the planets are fast
enough from being pulled into the sun.
A hundred years on now a Danish physics Niels Bore was proposing a quantum physics solution of the orbiting electrons
accelerated into the nucleus were quantum do not move smoothly but jump in and out only in their assigned orbits. They
do not jump beyond the inner electron orbit. In the nineteen twenties lead by Borhr there was a great deal of debate about
why the electrons were not attracted collapsing into the positive charge of the nucleus. Bohr's proposals has been the
most preferred explanation up to this date..
Never the less a bar magnet free to swing in a sling acts as
a comps. Think of the earth as a magnetized ball bearing. Allowed to swing freely will align themselves across the earth's
magnetic north and south magnetic ends. One
end "pushes" away from the north magnetic pole while the other end is "pulled" to the south magnetic
pole in
equal strengths lining up in that direction. Thus North and south seeking poles exist in all magnetic fields
from horseshoe to magnetic spheres. North and south seeking magnetic fields is the key ingredient in electrical power
generation power stations, dynamos, vehicle alternator electronics, electronics, loud speakers, microphones, all our
digital telecommunications systems, internet, computers robotics and electronics.
Operating on the principle of like repel and unlike repel principle what happens when the positive charge of the protons
occupy the same space? The same question with electrons. One way we can observe this if there was no neutrons in the nucleus.
The positive charge would be free to repel the positive charge
of the neighboring protons. Electrons are equally repelled by the negative charges of neighboring electrons.
In other words saying like charges occupying the same space repelling each other. Theoretically exactly the same processes
should be holding antimatter together.
The theory is if antimatter and mater is mixed the
repelling forces of the positive protons in matter and the positive forces of the electrons in antimatter all occupy the same space.
In theory all the like charges will repel each other. The result would be a light speed explosion of no matter or
antimatter left in existence To prevent this from
happening the Enterprises engines were designed to control the antimatter matter mix matter using the forces
to eliminate inertia from the Enterprise making it equally in a weightless state as stationary when
engaged in warp drive. What's inertia?
Isaac Newton's laws of force and motion " Where there is a force ( an acceleration ) there is an equal
and opposite force acting on it" sheds some light on why light light is finite even when there is
no resistance to oppose it in a vacuum like open space..
Most of us are familiar with the term G-force, the G's powerful muscle cars can produce. It is the weight we feel generated
by the motion we experience pulling us back into our seats zero to a hundred kilometers per hour or so in less than a
few seconds take off. Albert Einstein realized a horizontal force not unlike gravity but generated in motion called
gravitational equivalence. Rolla Coasters would not be any fun with out the G's they generate. They can generate up to
four kilograms of weight above the normal earth's gravity weighing us back into our seats. The G's are emphasized when
hitting theses tight bends and curls without slowing down.
Imagine a riding a Rolla Coaster from zero to a distance of a hundred and sixty kilometers ( or a hundred miles if
you like ) in a second. If we do the math's on this pans out to the equivalent G's of five hundred and seventy
five thousand kilometers per hour, ( or three hundred and sixty thousand miles an hour if you like ) take off. If the
speed of light was to accelerate from zero it would be the equivalent G's of ten thousand and eighty million kilometer
per in a second take off. Imagine the weight of the Enterprise would be at light speed take off.
The Enterprise's engines are designed to control a antimatter mix with matter using the repelling forces of the like charges occupying the same space to
generate a equivalent a reversing G-force on the forward going acceleration on the reversing G's as the
Enterprise shoots forward. In other words the CBS scientific advisers had proposed illuminating the reversing
G's of the forward going motion of the Enterprise making it as weightless as if it was motionless when it goes to
warp at light speed.
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