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Post by EshaNas on Jun 22, 2017 11:12:34 GMT
IIRC, it doesn't make a black hole, it just explodes as a burst of gamma rays and high-energy particles when stopped - akin to a high-speed boat thrusting water onto a pier when it stops suddenly, while also taking on some water during transit. And that comes from no real paper or citation, just from a pop-science site. |
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Post by The Astronomer on Jun 22, 2017 11:28:54 GMT
IIRC, it doesn't make a black hole, it just explodes as a burst of gamma rays and high-energy particles when stopped - akin to a high-speed boat thrusting water onto a pier when it stops suddenly, while also taking on some water during transit. And that comes from no real paper or citation, just from a pop-scienceΒ site. No, there are real papers about that. |
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Post by ππππππππππ on Jun 26, 2017 9:46:45 GMT
How much antimatter does it need to activate its drive? None, as this is an entirely fictional craft (with horizontal layout ffs) some unscrupulous people tried to use as "proof" that NASA was working on warp drive. An actual alcubierre warp drive would need an unknown but probably immense amount of antimatter (at first it was a Jupiter mass, but it has apparently been reduced since then), in addition to still purely hypothetical negative matter. It would also need to resist the arbitrarily high amount of radiations that will fill the bubble, something on the other side to stop it as it cannot by itself, and said something also arbitrarily resistant to radiation as every atom or dust grain the bubble collected on its way are instantly turned into a gamma ray flash. And a vertical layout. in a matter antimatter reaction, dont you need the same amount of matter as antimatter? |
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Post by Kerr on Jun 26, 2017 13:52:44 GMT
None, as this is an entirely fictional craft (with horizontal layout ffs) some unscrupulous people tried to use as "proof" that NASA was working on warp drive. An actual alcubierre warp drive would need an unknown but probably immense amount of antimatter (at first it was a Jupiter mass, but it has apparently been reduced since then), in addition to still purely hypothetical negative matter. It would also need to resist the arbitrarily high amount of radiations that will fill the bubble, something on the other side to stop it as it cannot by itself, and said something also arbitrarily resistant to radiation as every atom or dust grain the bubble collected on its way are instantly turned into a gamma ray flash. And a vertical layout. in a matter antimatter reaction, dont you need the same amount of matter as antimatter? Antimatter always annihilates equal amount of itself and normal matter. You could add more matter which you can use as a reaction mass. |
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