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Hey all,
I was watching a talk by Layrence Krauss on what might be possible from all the science fiction in star trek. One thing that he mentioned was that everyone comitted suicide in the show everytime they said engage! because of the massive G forces due to acceleration. The writers got around this problem by inventing the inertial dampeners.
Anyway, he said that while it was not trivial to imagine how to implement a device such as the inertial dampeners, it was possible. He left it for the Q&A part of the talk but no one asked him about it.
I was wondering if anyone here had an idea on what he thought might be the solution as I am very curious on how one could sneak a fast one by Newton.
Thanks
I was watching a talk by Layrence Krauss on what might be possible from all the science fiction in star trek. One thing that he mentioned was that everyone comitted suicide in the show everytime they said engage! because of the massive G forces due to acceleration. The writers got around this problem by inventing the inertial dampeners.
Anyway, he said that while it was not trivial to imagine how to implement a device such as the inertial dampeners, it was possible. He left it for the Q&A part of the talk but no one asked him about it.
I was wondering if anyone here had an idea on what he thought might be the solution as I am very curious on how one could sneak a fast one by Newton.
Thanks