Musings on Maneuver Drive Robert O'Connor (17 Dec 2017 04:27 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Richard Aiken (17 Dec 2017 11:30 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Rob O'Connor (18 Dec 2017 08:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive C. Berry (18 Dec 2017 21:16 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Rob O'Connor (20 Dec 2017 09:07 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive C. Berry (20 Dec 2017 16:21 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Jerry Barrington (20 Dec 2017 17:32 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Jerry Barrington (20 Dec 2017 17:40 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive C. Berry (20 Dec 2017 17:42 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Thomas RUX (21 Dec 2017 04:19 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Richard Aiken (21 Dec 2017 06:09 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Kelly St. Clair (21 Dec 2017 06:18 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Richard Aiken (21 Dec 2017 06:30 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Phil Pugliese (21 Dec 2017 18:18 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Thomas RUX (21 Dec 2017 21:39 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Kurt Feltenberger (21 Dec 2017 23:48 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Jerry Barrington (23 Dec 2017 13:23 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Edward Swatschek (22 Dec 2017 01:59 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Phil Pugliese (22 Dec 2017 05:31 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Richard Aiken (21 Dec 2017 06:26 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Richard Aiken (21 Dec 2017 06:33 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Rob O'Connor (22 Dec 2017 07:52 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Richard Aiken (22 Dec 2017 12:21 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Rob O'Connor (23 Dec 2017 04:33 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Tim (23 Dec 2017 07:46 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive shadow@xxxxxx (24 Dec 2017 13:15 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Tim (25 Dec 2017 00:25 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Robert O'Connor (25 Dec 2017 04:33 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive shadow@xxxxxx (01 Jan 2018 03:28 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Rob O'Connor (02 Jan 2018 03:42 UTC)
Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive shadow@xxxxxx (02 Jan 2018 19:40 UTC)

Re: [TML] Musings on Maneuver Drive Tim 25 Dec 2017 00:25 UTC

On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 05:14:08AM -0800, shadow at shadowgard.com (via tml list) wrote:
> Reactionless drives don't have that factor. so they will *always*
> violate conservation of energy, conservation of momentum, and even
> conservation of angular momentum in at least one frame of reference.

Yes.  You can get a bit of both worlds if instead of truly
reactionless drives, you have a reaction drive with tachyonic exhaust.
That would satisfy all the usual conservation laws.  There's a
potential problem with causality, but who really needed that anyway?

- Tim