From: Michael S. Lorrey (mike@datamann.com)
Date: Fri Mar 17 2000 - 06:48:33 MST
EvMick@aol.com wrote:
> It seems to me that a reactionless "drive" already exists.
>
> Consider any given volume of gas. Heat that gas. The gas expands. That
> is....the velocity of the individual molecules of the gas increase.
>
> Get rid of all the molecules except for one. Add energy to that
> molecule....what happens?
>
> I speculate that it's velocity increases. How?
>
> "For ever action there is an equal and opposite reaction"
>
> Regarding the above mentioned solitary molecule how does that follow?
It gains the energy from radiation (photons) which collide with it. An expanding
gas is a very good example of an action-reaction relationship, both on the
atomic/molecular level, and on the macro level. It is certainly not reactionless.
Gas does not just expand in one direction, it seeks to expand in all directions.
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Michael S. Lorrey
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