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HTTP:: Hyperdrive Propulsion Could See LHC Test
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In spite of the fact that the 27-kilometer-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was built in order to further our understanding of particle physics, and also to discover the elusive Higgs boson, engineers and physicists are also planning other uses for it. In the near future, one such purpose may be to test the validity and the efficiency of a novel class of spacecraft-propulsion systems, namely the hyperdrive engines, Technology Review reports. The influential German mathematician David Hilbert first proposed an interesting side-effect to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity in 1924. In a book entitled “The Foundation of Physics,” Hilbert analyzed in great detail the interactions of a relativistic particle, as it was moving towards or away from a stationary mass. He determined that, to the inertial, distant observer, a particle traveling at more than half the speed of light would appear to be repelled by the stationary mass. US-based physicist Franklin Felber says that!
this idea has more or less been forgotten since, but adds that it could still do wonders. Felber has also performed calculations of his own, showing that, if Hilbert's theory is true, then relativistic particles should also repel stationary masses under the same conditions. This allows the particles to essentially deliver a specific...
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