Recent content by Cotton_Sorbet

Ah, I see, I misunderstood; electron capture does involve an electron being absorbed into a nucleus, so it's less shocking to hear that it can be effected (if only very slightly) by external factors and indeed it's very interesting. However, if it's only electron capture, it won't be of much...

I think the general consensus of smaller rockets and more frequent launches is the wrong way to go about it. I get that smaller rockets need less powerful engines, which are easier to manufacture in principle than larger ones; they're easier to handle ie move from production to launch site and...

Ah, upon further thought, it wouldn't work anyway; even if you could influence the direction in which the decay products from a nuclear interaction go in the decay's wake, the neutrino is a third body, hence it would still only be confined to spherically symmetric possible paths. For instance...

Vastly different; As you know, neutrinos practically don't interact with matter at all, which means you can't make a sail out of them, because a sail implies you'd catch the neutrino "wind" from, say, the Sun. They have collosal cavities of water underground for detecting solar neutrinos - they...