19 Jan
1999
19 Jan
'99
2:13 p.m.
Mark Tapley wrote:
Ward Griffiths wrote:
Pulling something out of a black hole's gravity well or acceleration
to near light speed would require theoretical breakthroughs as well.
No matter what you read in SF novels that I also read from childhood.
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...I really wouldn't expect a modern computer
to manage more
than a few decades at best unless somebody developed a functional
"stasis field", and we need a major breakthrough in theoretical
physics -- and the followup engineering -- for that to happen.
...
Ward, I'm surprised! There are at least two ways to do this with current
physics:
1) put it way down deep in a gravity well. It'll have to be a *big* gravity
well to get the potential difference without generating tidal stresses
severe enough to threaten the structure of the computer. Pull it back out
when you are ready for it.
2) Accelerate it up to near 300,000 km/sec. Take a couple of months, of
course, else you'll generate acceleration-induced specific forces which
again might be dangerous to the classic computer. Run it in a big circle,
then decelerate it again at the destination date. It'll be in *much* better
shape than its twins left at home, per Al Einstein's classic.