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4/4/2014 1:17:15 PM
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There's loads of shortcuts and theories and stuff like that all around. But, maybe it's too early in the morning and I haven't scrambled myself back to normal yet, and I think this sounds like a page out of troll science and physics, but hear me out.
Let's say you have a spaceship floating in space, going nowhere.
And let's say there's a field around it that traps things in it. So our spaceship has a barrier of atmosphere around it. What would happen if you built the ship like an airplane or a jet, and fired off the propulsion systems?
Since there would be a small atmosphere generated and trapped in a small radius around it, would it not move forwards?
If so, then because of all thos laws which I'm too stupid to recall at the moment, wouldn't you be able to eventually accelerate to light speed, assuming you didn't crash into something?
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Edited by Angel of Verdun: 4/5/2014 1:36:13 AMNo the energy released from your drives would eventually build up inside the bubble and destroy the ship... Lol
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That's what I get for trying to hold any kind of reasonably intelligent discussion while suffering from sleep deprivation.
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Lol I meant to reply to OP
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No, it wouldn't really work, and even if it did, it would only hurt. If your ship had enough mass to retain an atmosphere, it would simply move with the ship, just like the Earth's atmosphere moves with Earth, even though we are buzzing through space at a pretty high rate of speed. But, if somehow, you were able to find an atmosphere in space and use it for propulsion, it would create friction, which would slow you down. The only benefit to flying in atmosphere rather than space is that an atmosphere may provide the oxygen you need to burn fuel. Also, nothing with mass can reach the speed of light. The amount of energy required to accelerate becomes very large as you approach the speed of light, and is actually infinite at speed C. So, they best you can hope for is close to the speed of light. If you are traveling through an atmosphere, your to speed would be severely limited by friction.
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But from some standpoint I'm not aware of, it would work in some manner! Not lightspeed, but the ability to move faster than we currently do now correct?
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I'm unaware of any way an atmosphere in space could make us go faster. You might be thinking of a "warp bubble" that creates a distortion of spacetime around a ship.
