Timeline for Millitary applications of a gravity drive [closed]
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| May 3, 2023 at 15:35 | history | closed |
KerrAvon2055 Gault Drakkor Joachim EDL Grollo |
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| Apr 22, 2023 at 1:04 | comment | added | BMF | I don't think it makes sense to say it doesn't violate momentum simply by dumping mass aftwards. If that dumped mass isn't responsible for 100% of the ship's gained momentum, then somewhere's the crime. It could probably be excused though. Gravitational waves have gravitational fields, and there's no reason two waves can't constructively interfere to create a standing wave (phase velocity zero). Don't ask where all the energy to create gravitational waves comes from though. | |
| Apr 21, 2023 at 21:27 | answer | added | TheDemonLord | timeline score: 4 | |
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| Apr 21, 2023 at 20:40 | comment | added | JBH | OK, I've retracted my close vote, but it'll remain that way only if you delete your two examples. The help center prohibits giving answers and expecting more and asking more than one question is a factual reason to close questions. Don't reword them. Just delete them. For future reference: asking for the best or worst (or largest/smallest, or any other superlative) can be closed as "Too Story-Based" because what's "best" depends on the circumstances of your story. E.G., what's the best weapon for foot soldiers? Well... is it raining? dark? are they outnumbered? etc. "Best" is subjective. | |
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| Apr 21, 2023 at 19:04 | comment | added | Zags | @StarfishPrime I've narrowed it down to military or economic applications | |
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| Apr 21, 2023 at 18:46 | comment | added | Starfish Prime | As it stands, this question isn't a great fit due to its open-ended nature. There's a potentially unbounded number of possible answers which aren't wrong as such, but there's no useful metric for establishing which one (if any) is the right answer. I think you need to be more focussed than "enumerate all the possible uses of X". | |
| Apr 21, 2023 at 18:17 | comment | added | Daron | It sounds like the function of the device is to create a large uniform force field. | |
| Apr 21, 2023 at 18:04 | comment | added | Zags | @gs The ship could eject reaction mass to offset if that's needed. I don't need this to be energy efficient; I need it to be able to do high acceleration on biological payloads without killing them. | |
| Apr 21, 2023 at 17:41 | comment | added | g s | (Which isn't to say that you shouldn't have it, just that you should bury its mechanism under an unknown principle of science and decide secondary consequences, if any, arbitrarily.) | |
| Apr 21, 2023 at 17:33 | comment | added | g s | Your drive won't work. Momentum is conserved. You can do it (in reverse) with a negative mass carrot, but there are no negative masses, and if there were, very little about your universe would make any sense at all. | |
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