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Reactionless Drives
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 by Admiral_CoeymanAt this point, I will interject with reactionless drives. Pushers do not have to be reactive drive systems. The fact that some physical medium is involved in the propulsive system is a matter of time. Right now, we use spacecraft which pushers and they use chemical reactions to provide that thrust. Even a fusion based impulse drive train would be a reactive drive because mass is required in order for the propulsive system to work.
Reactionless drive works by deforming space to produce a linear, propulsive imbalance. Think of reactionless drive as being like placing a toy car on a table and then tilting the table. Gravity would then pull the toy toward the floor. Like gravity, reactionless drives are field based.
Space can be bent by any quantum field of adequate field density. At the center of any field, the field density, a measure of strength, is infinite. The field’s strength then falls off by the inverse square law so that the field density drops off rapidly as you move away from the center of the field. Notice that the field density is squared even though it is acting in four dimensional time-space.
Fields react on objects along two dimensions. The first of these is time. Secondly, fields work along a line between the centers of the fields at both ends of the effect. This produces a two dimensional saturation, thus a squaring where and effect within three dimensional space would produce a cubing. Oddly, the saturation of a field along one line does not deplete the field’s effect in other directions although there is a definite deformation of the field as the field saturates the connection between two objects.
You can produce a reactionless drive by generating a field that has its effective center ahead of your spacecraft, behind your spacecraft or runs along your spacecraft. The field must produce a difference in potential along the axis of desired movement or the spacecraft will remain stationary. All motion is the result of an imbalance. Reactionless drive produces this imbalance with fields where reactive drive produces this imbalance with mass.
