Is 90% light speed possible with antimatter engines?

Question

Is it technologically feasible?

Answer 1

Probably the easiest way to use antimatter on a ship is to make it on the ship. Antimatter is made on earth using particle accelerators, but HUGE particle accelerators only make atoms at a time. You would need to somehow build a particle accelerator hundreds of times larger and thousands of times more powerful just to get a usable amount of antimatter, but your ship already weighs millions of tons, so its a loose/loose.

One of the other challenges of using antimatter as a propulsion is to channel that energy. Even if you could get that energy stabilized on the ship, detonating and having it come out the back is rough, because the explosion is so powerful. Nanotechnology would have to develop some more so we can come up with some hardware that can take the power of that thrust and channel it out the back of the ship.

BTW, the fastest man has traveled to date was unfortunately in the 70's with a mission to fly past the sun. It was a satellite called Helios. It's fastest velocity was 157,078 mph! That is fast! It's nothing compared to what we could achieve if we boost assisted a satellite or shuttle in space with the same propulsion found on the Saturn Moon rockets. I'm just estimating, but we might go as fast as 6 million mph if the boost was sustained for several minutes. Not quite the speed of light is it.

Answer 2

Look at it this way --

Take a 10 kg mass. Somehow get it moving at 89% the speed of light. That 10 kg mass would now have a mass of 1.134658^17 kg. Obviously, to boost that "new" mass up to 90% the speed of light is going to take an enormous amount of energy. Actually it would take 1.01977^34 ergs of energy (..about 3.7987^20 horsepower) There is no technology today that can crank out that kind of energy, nor any in the foreseeable future.

Answer 3

yes it has already been done with electrons the experiment found that the electrons reached 99.9% the speed of light and as they let it run trying to find if it would obtain the speed of light 100% it stopped accelerating and instead kept gaining more mass until they decided to shut it off. It, right now, is technologically impossible to achieve the entire speed of light.

but according to your question the answer is no with combustable engines but i have a few theories of my own that would theoritically work (so far) but i plan to do some more research into my theories and i will try to confirm and even start designing the device to accomplish the speed of light.

hope that helps,

demosthenes

Answer 4

i think of the theoretical cut back for an Orion Nuclear Pulse engine replaced into around 20% easy velocity in case you used fusion bombs. you need to push to ninety% with antimatter, yet once you have that lots antimatter you need to apply extra valuable techniques. If with the help of nuke you advise nuclear thermal, then you truly have not have been given any probability. possibly a million% easy velocity tops. And remember, the swifter you get, the extra risky random dirt debris hitting you get. At 50% easy velocity a grain of sand could be like a brilliant bomb hitting you. At ninety% it would be such as you acquire hit interior the face with a 1Gigaton nuke. so which you extra suitable have a fscking huge sheild in front of you too, which provides to mass, and slows you down extra. Aint physics a *****?

Answer 5

A quantum of light is a privileged particle.
Only a light quantum has the absolute speed c=1.
No other particle can travel with the speed c = 1.
Other particle can travel only with the speed v=s/t.
But if quantum of light flies always only rectilinearly
with speed c=1, it is a mad one.
No.
Quantum of light have two kinds of spins ,
as a result of which the particle attains motion.
1)
Under the action of Planck,s spin (impuls),
which is equal to the unit ( h =1)
a quantum of light flies rectilinearly with speed (c = 1).
The geometrical form of a circle: (C/D = 3,14).
A quantum of light behaves as a particle.
2)
Under the action of Goudsmit-Uhlenbeck's spin ,
( ħ = h / 2pi) a quantum of light rotates around of its diameter
with the speed more of light quanta : c>1
and is known as electron.
The geometrical form of a circle is transformed into a sphere.
This kind of movement is described by Lorentz's transformations .
In this action the wave properties of light quantum are shown.
The dualism of a particle becomes clear.
The paradox of dualism disappears completely.
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in the “Theory of light quanta”.
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Answer 6

in our distant future light speed will be surpassed many times over by technologies we have not even dreamed about today.

Answer 7

Not today. Here's an intersting article:

http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/prop12apr99_1.htm

Answer 8

Anything is possible...more we learn, the more we find out what we don't know. Even Steven Hawking admitted he was wrong.

Answer 9

not with today's technology.

Answer 10

huh?! way too much star trek...lol