Comments on: Antimatter: Coming Soon to a Warp Nacelle Near You?

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By: michael thomas

michael thomas — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:08:38 +0000

Megan, patent pending, but what good is an invention if it’s not developed.

NASA won’t invest in because it wasn’t invented by them, so I guess it’s best to let whomever in the world that really wants to go into space develop it.

The greater good of mankind needs to be served……… before greed.

I will throw 100% support by anyone wanting to use the technology.

By: pete

pete — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:39:56 +0000

A containment apparatus for containing a cloud of charged particles comprises a cylindrical vacuum chamber having a longitudinal axis. Within the vacuum chamber is a containment region. A magnetic field is aligned with the longitudinal axis of the vacuum chamber. The magnetic field is time invariant and uniform in strength over the containment region.
An electric field is also aligned with the longitudinal axis of the vacuum chamber and the magnetic field. The electric field is time invariant, and forms a potential well over the containment region. One or more means are disposed around the cloud of particles for inducing a rotating electric field internal to the vacuum chamber. The rotating electric field imparts energy to the charged particles within the containment region and compress the cloud of particles.

The means disposed around the outer surface of the vacuum chamber for inducing a rotating electric field are four or more segments forming a segmented ring, the segments conforming to the outer surface of the vacuum chamber. Each of the segments is energized by a separate alternating voltage. The sum of the voltages imposed on each segment establishes the rotating field.

When four segments form a ring, the rotating field is obtained by a signal generator applying a sinusoidal signal phase delayed by 90, 180 and 270 degrees in sequence .

Inertia dampening this is a very technical subject, However on a scientific level when dealing with enertia it is believed that a artificial gravety may cancel out inertia.

By: pete

pete — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:00:41 +0000

One of the most idealistic interstellar rocket concepts is the antimatter rocket. Antimatter is matter that has an opposite charge and rotation then that of normal matter. Upon contact with normal matter, both masses annihilate and according to Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, the annihilation of the masses leaves pure energy as an output. The use of antimatter and matter reactions could therefore be used to power an industrialized society, and send vehicles through space at amazing speeds due to the absolute efficient reaction. The use of antimatter as a fuel for propulsion has incredible potential, perhaps even to make interstellar travel a possibility, but so far harnessing this energy is a problem that has not been solved. However there are many equasions that could possibly be introduced in the future such as einstine’s thyeory,matter can be turned into energy (anti mater and mater E=MC2)

= 0.111 x 300,000,000 x 300,000,000
= 10,000,000,000,000,000 Joules
This is an incredible amount of energy! A Joule is not a large unit of energy … one Joule is about the energy released when you drop a textbook to the floor. But the amount of energy in 30 grams of hydrogen atoms is equivalent to burning hundreds of thousands of gallons of gasoline!

it doesnt take much antimatter and matter to achieve space travel however harnessing this energy is deffinately key so we dont go boom in a millianth of a second of brilliant bright light. keep up the good work

By: Dunc

Dunc — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:22:13 +0000

But if scientists could design, and engineers could build, a vessel to contain antimatter, it would go a long way towards solving our planet’s energy needs.

Kinda depends on where you’re getting the antimatter from…

By: megan

megan — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:09:44 +0000

LOL, something as important an invention actually using anti-matter propulstion and it’s being posted and paraded around online before getting a patent. Genius.

My Trek Nerd problem with this article is that they don’t even understand the reason behind the use of anti-matter in the Trek-verse. It’s to provide the energy needed to create a singularity to ‘warp’ space so ‘attached matter can then travel from point A to B faster than ‘light’ does along ‘straight’ non-bended 3D space. It’s not to provide impulse power. That’s atleast how ‘The Science of Trek’ explained their imaginings.

By: Michael Thomas

Michael Thomas — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:36:22 +0000

I have serious reservations that NASA is capable of understanding
anti-matter propulsion if this article is representative of their
knowledge so I will help their effort.

Here is my patent pending invention which uses antimatter created as needed using an ablation plate to give thrust.

http://colossalstorage.net/propulsion/anitmatter_propulsion_basics.pdf

NASA comment ,”But if scientists could design, and engineers could build, a vessel to contain antimatter, it would go a long way towards solving our planet’s energy needs.”

This comment I am sorry to say is wrong. NASA will not except anyone’s idea
outside NASA as they still have the NOT INVENTED HERE MENTALLITY !

By: Brian Too

Brian Too — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:48:47 +0000

Make sure that warp core ejection system has been designed and built first!

By: Nelson Bridwell

Nelson Bridwell — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:00:47 +0000

From NASA webpage: “10 milligrams of positrons needed for a human Mars mission”

By: Rhacodactylus

Rhacodactylus — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:07:46 +0000

I could be mistaken but I remember reading somewhere that in the entire time we have been able to produce antimatters using particle colliders we have created considerably less than a gram of the stuff . . . mars may be a ways off =/