| I got into a discussion of UFOs. The question was how would they
be able to change directions and accelerate instantly. He was trying
to guess what kind of propulstion they used. This is the reply I sent. The more I think about it it becomes clear that physics is wrongly constructed. The ability to manipulate space-time directly solves a lot of problems.
Take, for example, the UFO problem I mentioned. Physics has the concept of
propulsion, equal and opposite "forces". If instead you could directly manipulate
"mass" as a variable then things change. The photon is massless which makes the
universe "flat" and leads to travel at the speed of light. If you could shed mass
at will you could easily approach the speed of light without "propulsion". Thus a
civilization that figures out how to manipulate "mass" would be able to travel
anywhere at the speed of light. You don't accelerate mass, which is dumb,
you "shed mass" and thus move without propulsion. Indeed, if you could
achieve "negative mass" (changing a gravity well into a gravity hill) you could
easitly exceed the speed of light. Einstein felt that things got more massive as they approach the speed of light
and, in the limit, would have infinite mass. That's true under propulsion. It is not
true if you can "shed mass". Thus Einstein missed the very thing that mattered. Shedding mass likely involves directly manipulating the Higgs boson. Dark energy and dark matter might be "negative masses". I don't know any physics professors but I'm pretty sure I'm talking nonsense :-) |
For the Alcubierre drive which also speculates on acquiring negative mass, the quote: "the energy requirements still generally require a Type III civilization on the Kardashev scale." says something about how well the word "easily" fits into such a solution.