Recent content by BigDumbWeirdo

You mean the energy difference between the 'lost' mass and the energy needed to accelerate it? Because I'm ignoring technical limitations, as is the norm in sci-fi. I'm assuming some fictional mechanism to store this energy so that it can be released when the fictional field is, in order to...

The SI unit of momentum is kg m/s, the SI unit of mass is the kilogram, and the SI unit of velocity is the meter per second. So anytime you divide the mass by a factor x, you need merely multiply the velocity by the same factor x to maintain momentum. And since you're releasing energy by...

That's much more the sort of response I've been looking for... Do you have any thoughts as to why it would produce such deleterious effects and what sort of effects it would produce? Absent such ideas (and while I have thought a bit about it, I'm not familiar enough with the subject to think up...

But I already spelled out the extent of those properties: The only effect this means has is of lowering the level of interactions with the higgs field of the particles it encompasses. I don't want to simply say "It was a a problem with the transverse hyper drive that caused the accident"...

Well, I said "magically" because I wanted to make it clear that it was accomplished through some hitherto-unknown means, not through anything more mundane like shedding some of the matter of the spaceship. I didn't mean magical in the sense that it's accomplished by magical means, it's meant to...

Assuming the existence of the higgs field, what would happen to an inertial object if it were to 'magically' reduce it's mass, through reducing it's ability to interact with the higgs field? Would it's velocity relative to a stationary object increase, decrease, or remain unaffected? Are there...

I'm American and I learned who Yuri is in school... I don't really understand the point of this. In order to demonstrate any appreciable 'american bias' you'd need a whole host of questions, not just a single one.