It is possible to create a thrust without an apparent thrust by accelerating
particles that do not normally interact with matter.
Overview
The device is very similar to a traveling wave tube
amplifier. A RF field is send down the length of the crystal to create
an
acoustic wave. This wave intersects a row of atoms at slightly faster
than the
speed of the particles that are being accelerated. (Note: this does not
mean
that the wave is traveling faster than the speed of sound, just that
the wave
front is at an angle to the crystal lattice)
The crystal is must also be cooled in order to prevent normal atom movements from interfering with the effect.
When A particle is aligned with the crystal and
the wave it
can get a boost or buck depending on its phase.
If a particle gets a boost it cant go faster than the
speed of light, however if a particle slows down it will get scattered.
Thus
given a large enough crystal the accelerated particles will
dominate. Now since the particle is
already going
near the speed of light you do not actually increase it's speed,
however you do increase it's effective mass.
The effect is similar
to the way traveling wave tube amplifiers work. except in this case it
uses the fact that neutrinos have mass.
Or you can think of it as changing the local gravity field
around each particle.
In order for this to
work, you must know
the speed and direction of the particle. The exact type of particle
does not need to be known; just the direction and velocity are needed.
neutrinos
from the sun
The sun produces lot's
of neutrinos. This would make a
good place to start since both there direction and speed are known.
Note: It's not necessary to know the exact position of the neutrinos, just the angle from where they came
from.
Crystal
The exact crystal used is unimportant provided
it's dense and has a uniform structure.
Deferent crystals have different critical
frequencies where the effect no longer works.
The frequency is dependent on the both the structure and the
temperature.
Acoustics
and magnetron
The trick is to
acoustically excite the crystal so that the pressure wave intercepts
the atomic structure at a precise angle.
The angle is the speed of sound in the crystal vs the speed of the
particle. Note: This will require an adaptive controller.
The higher the frequency the greater the effect,
however you must be able to control the frequency and it must
spectrally pure.
This currently limits us to the microwave band.