Crystal propulsion
February 10 2011. Copyright 2011 by William Arden. Redistribution is allowed provided that credit is given.
This device can accelerate any particle that has mass and thus this device could be used to accelerate dark matter. If there is 8 times more dark matter than regular matter it would mean that this device would be much more efficient. An analogy would be the difference between a rocket in space and a boat propeller in water.
One issue though is that both the most common particle mass and the average velocity and approximate direction must be known for the device to work. Without this information the device will just vibrate as the wave falls in and out of sync.
Due to interstellar gas pressure the dark matter in the galaxy can not stay in sync with the solar system. This means that the dark matter is likely in a disk along the plain of the galaxy and moving at the average rate for our given distance to the center. The thickness of the disk is also important since if it was really thin this device would be very efficient, but only for the short amount of time that we are crossing the plain. If the dark matter is in a wide band then the efficiency would be lower, but it would work most of the time.
Aug 4 2010
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2010 by William Arden. Redistribution is allowed provided that this
notice is included
I have come up with a way to use
the first part of the crystal to orientate the particles. This means
that I no longer need to know the particles direction and speed. This
is good since it's impossible to know both at the same time. However,
this new section requires knowledge of the particles exact mass in
order to tune it. I am hoping that further understanding of what
kinds of particles make up dark matter will allow this device to be
tuned.
Jan 30 2005
Copyright 2004,2005 by William
Arden. Redistribution is allowed provided that this notice is
included
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.
Different 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.
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