Recent content by dbmorpher

Thank you all for your input, it is highly valued. After speaking with a trusted teacher of mine who is also a professor at the Naval War College I believe it would be more prudent to pursue an officer's education if I do chose to serve. I will definitely be doing more research.

A friend of mine who is enlisting into the navy informed me of their enlisted nuke program. He really played it up saying I'd get great pay and a lot of benefits. I looked into it myself but found a large amount of people that were dissatisfied with their experience citing claims of delays of...

While the main problems of a functioning starship are commonly known such as energy requirements and radiation I have realized another problem when near the speed of light. The dynamic Casimir effect occurs when a reflecting object reaches relativistic velocities. Therefore a starship with a...

Perhaps if you want eternal twilight you could instead have a system with a binary planet where their revolution is locked to the star so the planet farther away would be in an eternal eclipse? However I don't think all this work is necessary, while I'm no expert in planetary formation I would...

OP said he wanted to move a planet, I suggested an option. Someone living at the equator would most likely survive.

Extrapolating from your responses, I'd say the answer to question b would be that the carbon has formed carbon dioxide and thus become an invisible gas. However due to the fact that your star has a mass of 0.8 suns I would think that a planet would not exist at your radius. Pluto exists at a...

If the two Suns were close together and the planet farther away it would most likely oscillate back and forth as the stars would rotate each other faster than the planet itself rotates their barycenter.

If you want to move a planet I'd say that blasting a hole through its axis and using its core as a heat engine would be a more spectacular phenomenon, also more plausible. The ejecta from the initial blast would most likely to propel it enough do change its orbit significantly. This could be...

Seeing as most of you have read the atomic rockets website I would like to say something about the "fighters". OP describes them as having omnidirectional nuclear fission propulsion systems. I would say use of fission energy is over powered in this respect due to the excessive shielding systems...

Well seeing as one of hulk's powers is the "controlled" emission of gamma rays he could in theory function as a physical penning trap by emitting enough photons to counteract the diffusion of antimatter. However antimatter emits radiation only when in contact with regular matter which it...

So basically no matter how fast an electron goes its mass never increases because relativistic mass does not correlate to the actual mass of the particle?

If a particle gains energy when it gains mommetum then by extension it gains mass. My idea if you get an electron traveling fast enough the energy will increase enough to turn it into a black hole with the same radius as the electron and can therefore be fed with the electron.

Well I had a lot of working but I deleted it because it didn't work. However I found a similar thread that solved my problem. Thank you for your interest. If you were wondering the reason the acceleration is so high is because I am trying to create a black hole by accelerating an electron to a...

That is what I tried to do however I received some very unusual answers such as an almost zero number. i. e. I need some help with isolating velocity because I can't seem to be able to myself.

Homework Statement If I know the momentum and mass of a particle how do I determine/differentiate the Lorentz Factor and velocity? Electron rest mass: 9.10938215e-31kg c=299792458m/s y=Lorentz Factor m=mass p=momentum e=energy Calculated momentum: 2.019006271e+14kg m/s Homework Equations...