Mars in 3 Hours?
Posted on January 30, 2006
An article on New Scientist discusses an ship that could slip into multidimensional hyperspace and travel to far away destinations incredibly quickly -- like Mars in just 3 hours.
Claims of the possibility of "gravity reduction" or "anti-gravity" induced by magnetic fields have been investigated by NASA before (New Scientist, 12 January 2002, p 24). But this one, Droscher insists, is different. "Our theory is not about anti-gravity. It's about completely new fields with new properties," he says. And he and Hauser have suggested an experiment to prove it.A Register article says many scientists don't completely understand how it will work.This will require a huge rotating ring placed above a superconducting coil to create an intense magnetic field. With a large enough current in the coil, and a large enough magnetic field, Droscher claims the electromagnetic force can reduce the gravitational pull on the ring to the point where it floats free. Droscher and Hauser say that to completely counter Earth's pull on a 150-tonne spacecraft a magnetic field of around 25 tesla would be needed. While that's 500,000 times the strength of Earth's magnetic field, pulsed magnets briefly reach field strengths up to 80 tesla. And Droscher and Hauser go further. With a faster-spinning ring and an even stronger magnetic field, gravitophotons would interact with conventional gravity to produce a repulsive anti-gravity force, they suggest.
Dr�scher is hazy about the details, but he suggests that a spacecraft fitted with a coil and ring could be propelled into a multidimensional hyperspace. Here the constants of nature could be different, and even the speed of light could be several times faster than we experience. If this happens, it would be possible to reach Mars in less than 3 hours and a star 11 light years away in only 80 days, Droscher and Hauser say.
The US military is considering testing the principle behind a type of space drive which holds the promise of reaching Mars in just three hours. The problem is, as New Scientist explains, it's entirely theoretical and many physicists admit they don't understand the science behind it.It sounds much much more like a hope than a reality at this point but at least the concept is being looked into. We aren't really going to get anywhere traveling space at our current speeds.
