Particle acceleration for Hyper drives?

[GreenAce92]

I vaguely read about this idea about using particle accelerators as hyperdrives

Does anyone know any more information about this subject?

 

[ZapperZ]

This is not an acceptable way to start a discussion. "vaguely read" is not a good reference source.

https://www.physicsforums.com/blog.php?b=2703

Zz.

 

[GreenAce92]

Alright, this is partially related to my other thread involving my misunderstanding of the helmholtz coil and its effects

I had all of these tabs open on wikipedia at the time while researching about the possibility of creating a "mass flow ionizer" type thruster based on Earth's atmosphere which so far I was told would not work.

Anyway, through reading I was linked to "Particle Beam Weapon" and I had to look deeper to find where it was that I read the statements comparing impulses of a larger and a smaller ball (impulse transfer) as an analogy of what happens when the "high kinetic particles" are applying a force on the accelerating device therefore supposedly driving the craft... (very vague as I said)

Hall Effect
Hall Effect thruster
Helmholtz Coil
Specific Impulse
Magnetic Field
Electronegativity
Pound Force
Xenon Gas
My Charge to Mass ratio lab
Lorentz Force
Thrust
Particle beam weapon

Ha! I found it. I didn't even realize it was written on the same website (published) that is what is advertised on these forums

http://phys.org/news174293159.html

 

[ZapperZ]

That was from 2009. I haven't heard anything being done on such things. In fact, the only citation to that arXiv manuscript was another preprint by the author himself.

So to answer your original question, this has gone nowhere so far.

Zz.

P.S. Stick to one topic at a time. I don't need to know what you were doing when you came up with this question.

 

[GreenAce92]

Alright well thanks