From: Michael Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Date: Fri Dec 05 1997 - 05:08:17 MST
John K Clark wrote:
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> On Thu, 4 Dec 1997 Douglas Whitworth <DouglasW@durban.gov.za> Wrote:
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> >Is this concept the same as the one used in " Contact" whereby Jodie
> > Foster ( can't remember her character's name) is sucked through the
> >wormhole when her " capsule" is launched by the Vagan designed ..
> >er.. Artificial Singularity ?
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> snip...
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> Thorn felt badly, he didn't want to leave his friend in the lurch and became
> determined to find a way Sagan could finish his book. After a few days of
> work he found that wormholes could be stabilized and made to do useful things
> if you had something that pushed the wormholes walls apart gravitationally,
> something with a negative energy density from light's frame of reference,
> something like antimass. Thorn called this stuff "Exotic Material". Nothing
> like Exotic Material has ever been observed and there is no theoretical
> reason to think it exists, but there is no theoretical reason to think it
> doesn't either, and that was just what Sagan needed for his novel.
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Exotic Matter far predates Sagan. It goes all the way back to the early
50's. ALcubierre posited it for use in his warp drive concept...
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