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Space Exploration
By JohnStClair on 7/18/2010 1:48:38 PM , Rating: -1
I was reading Dr. Kip Thorne's book about wormholes. The wormhole can be opened with negative energy. It has two openings which can be moved around. If we build an elevator and surround the shaft with one of the wormhole's openings, and then build a second shaft on the Moon for the second opening, then the elevator will rise into the first wormhole, experience a soft wavy space-time as it traverses the throat, and then emerge through the second shaft on the Moon. In fact, Andy Basiago describes something similar to this when he went to Mars where the US already has the underground MEPI Mars Experimental Planetary Institute there. If this is the case, then launch rockets and astronauts are obsolete.

RE: Space Exploration
By delphinus100 on 7/18/2010 6:55:31 PM , Rating: 4
Recipe for Rabbit Stew:

First, you catch a rabbit...

You got ant exotic matter/negative energy laying around? Who is Andy Basagio? Does he?

And I've read my share of Kip Thorne and Robert Forward, too. You don't need anything as fancy as 'elevator' structures, if you can do this at all. Just go into the damn thing, re-appear at the other. The 'other' could be sent to Mars (or wherever) by a leisurely slow ship (or a relativistic near-light starship*), where re-supply and re-fuel is simple, and everyone aboard could just 'step' back to Earth at the end of their shift, replaced by someone else.

(* And the traveling end of the wormhole is attached to that ship's frame of reference. If it's going to a star 50ly away, but close enough to lightspeed for time dilation to make, say, only 5 years pass on the can use this method to step directly from here to that distant star system, only 5 years after the ship has departed. Thorne has said this, too.)

But first catch that rabbit. Make and maintain a traversable wormhole, if you can. And though I'm not from Missouri, you really need to show me. 'Extraordinary claims' and all that.

Wake me when you have it.


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