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- From: gnb@duke.bby.com.au (Gregory N. Bond)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Antiproton-boosted fission
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.074602.10232@melba.bby.oz.au>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 07:46:02 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: tjn32113@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 23 Jul 92 20:25:49 GMT
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- >>>>> On 23 Jul 92 20:25:49 GMT, tjn32113@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Thomas J. Nugent) said:
-
- >> Unrelated: Weren't books like the Skylark series and the Lensman series
- >> (both by E.E. Smith) written sometime in the thirties? As in, he was
- >> simply ignoring the physics which said one simply could not accelerate
- >> to a speed faster than that of light?
-
- Each series had a different approach. The Skylark series basically
- said relativity was wrong. The Lensman series had a device to
- neutralize inertia, the assumtion being that relativity didn't apply
- to massive but inertialess matter!
-
- [As one of the characters said, inertialess mass isn't so wierd if you
- consider we don't really know what mass is!]
-
- Greg, ashamedly admitting a fairly extensive E.E. Smith collection!
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