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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Now that this confusion is out of the way, we might consider the possibilities offered by the transporter. That machine doesn't seem to preserve momentum or angular momentum - after all, it can handle surface-to-orbit transport just as fine as a ship-to-ship one. Let's start easy. What about rigging a rocket engine inside the ship, and having the jet of propellant be transported back to the fuel tanks after it has been spat out by the rocket? An exhaustless drive that consumes no propellant. You only need the fuel that gives you energy for the rocket and the transporter - say, a fission or fusion reactor or something. Or, if the transporter can give the required momentum and angular momentum to somebody who is transported from ship to surface, I guess it could also give such momentum to a jet of gas. No need for actual engines - just transport a puff of gas that will shove the ship in the desired direction, then grab that gas again and give it another dose of momentum, again and again and again until your ship moves at relativistic speeds... Your "engine nozzle" could be a hollow sphere at the heart of your ship, with the puffs of gas hitting the inner walls of the sphere. And so forth and so forth. A machine that doesn't conserve momentum is a pretty darn impressive propulsion system, even if it can only handle a small amount of matter at a time. You don't need to transport an entire starship to get it moving... Or does the transporter in fact conserve momentum? If so, where is it dumped? Some sort of huge flywheels which rev up when somebody beams up, and are tapped for momentum when somebody beams down? Heating and cooling of something by fiddling with the momenta of the molecules? That's pretty impressive, too. And a great weapon or way to get free energy, or then a horrid source of environmental damage if the transporter dumps the momentum on nearby planets and stuff. Next week on Flare Forum: artificial gravity and how it causes 6.7-Richter earthquakes in Newton's grave... Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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