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Can this work?? Moving in a vacuum
Okay, so i have been bugged by this idea for about a week now. And unfortunately it has been quite some time since I took any real in depth science classes. I am wondering if this idea is even plausible.
In the vacuum of space, would you be able to have a spaceship with a paddle-wheel type arm on the back. Instead of the paddles though, it is an arm with wiring coiled around it so that you can run a current through it and create a magnetic field. If that arm could be put on a rotating joint to allow say 180% movement, so as to allow for turning, would the magnetic field( if it was strong enough) be able to move the ship?
ATM i am not so much concerned with the mass, current required, or speed gained as I am as is this even possible. Also I tend to have weird ideas, so do you think that this is just completely insane? Plausible but not practical?
Thanks,
Rob
Okay, so i have been bugged by this idea for about a week now. And unfortunately it has been quite some time since I took any real in depth science classes. I am wondering if this idea is even plausible.
In the vacuum of space, would you be able to have a spaceship with a paddle-wheel type arm on the back. Instead of the paddles though, it is an arm with wiring coiled around it so that you can run a current through it and create a magnetic field. If that arm could be put on a rotating joint to allow say 180% movement, so as to allow for turning, would the magnetic field( if it was strong enough) be able to move the ship?
ATM i am not so much concerned with the mass, current required, or speed gained as I am as is this even possible. Also I tend to have weird ideas, so do you think that this is just completely insane? Plausible but not practical?
Thanks,
Rob