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Is there a way to reconcile inertial dampening fields with conservation laws?
The main use of inertial dampening fields and inertial compensators in scifi stories appears to be to stop the contents of your ship from being reduced to a thin layer of paint on the aft bulkhead ...
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Is there a way to reconcile inertial dampening fields with conservation laws?
Something that "turns off" inertia is no good. "Inertial dampeners", on the other hand, as depicted in science fiction, are just fine.
All you need to do is transfer any forces the ...
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Is there a way to reconcile inertial dampening fields with conservation laws?
Sorta, but not really.
I myself have been looking for a way to justify inertia manipulation in my worldbuilding for a while. This is the closest I've come.
Why it breaks conservation laws
Changing ...
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Is there a way to reconcile inertial dampening fields with conservation laws?
There is more than one way to balance a momentum equation
The kinds of engines that we know how to make today work by adding energy to a system which increases the velocity and momentum, but there is ...
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Is there a way to reconcile inertial dampening fields with conservation laws?
When implementing technologies that manipulate properties and interactions around mass, even when mass can seem to be changed, an equal but opposite change appears elsewhere and can even cancel out ...
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Is there a way to reconcile inertial dampening fields with conservation laws?
Interacting with an as-yet-undiscovered field sounds like a viable option. It's neat in that you can handwave away all the seemingly physically impossible phenomena but you can do even better: you can ...
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