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"Jason Hovercraft-Bingley" writes:
> "Gordon D. Pusch" wrote in message
> news:giektflowb.fsf@pusch.xnet.com...
>> "Eric Fenby" writes:
>>
>>> Does SOTA nuclear physics hold out any hope for another force which
>>> might be exploited other than simple reaction or reaction against the
>>> Earths magnetic field?
>>
>> No. =ALL= of the forces in physics satisfy Conservation of Linear
>> Momentum, which is the physical basis for Newton's Third Law of Action
>> And Reaction.
>
> So all those programmes which postulate some sort of interstellar travel
> in the far distant future are pure fantasy.
It's taken you _this_ long to figure out that escapist TV fantasies
like _Star Drek: Fill-In-The-Blank (tm)_ are almost entirely composed
of bovine byproduct, without the _slightest_ shred of truth or scientific
accuracy whatsoever ?!
> I had hoped that all that arcane data coming out of places like CERN
> about "gluons" and particles with "upness" and "charm" would have
> provided at least a glimmer of hope for some sort of new principle which
> might be exploited.
All that stuff is basically what Lord Kelvin snidely referred to as
"Stamp Collecting." There have been no _truly_ new and fundamental
discoveries in physics in nearly two decades, at this point; every
high-energy experiment we do simply confirms the "Standard Model"
to another decimal place.
Ironically, nowadays all the _real_ action is in biology --- the very field
Lord Kelvin snidely was comparing to "Stamp Collecting"...
> Oh dear. I'm really depressed now.
Sorry to disappoint you, but reality is a harsh and uncharitable overlord.
Learn to deal with it.
-- Gordon D. Pusch
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