A Simple Way to Travel at the Speed of Light
This somewhat brilliant idea occurred to me when I was visiting Ikea. I found myself in the kitchen supplies section and discovered this:
It’s a Lazy Susan, named Snudda. But that’s not important right now. At first, as you do, I just spun it around and around, waiting for my other half to finish acquiring the millions of things we seem to need from Ikea. Then, having an excellent mechanical mind, I put one on top of the other. Little did I know that I was on the brink of a world changing discovery: at last, interstellar space travel would be within our grasp. Maybe even time travel itself!
To be honest I can’t believe this has eluded our top physicists for so long.
Here’s how we travel at the speed of light. We pile a series of electric motors one on top of the other, just like a stack of lazy susans, like so:
None of these lazy susan motors needs to be very fast, because each one is already revolving at a power of the one beneath it. If each lazy susan motor was revolving at 10rpm, each marginal lazy susan would be revolving at a decimal power of the one beneath it.
Now, if n = 11 and diameter d is, say, 100cm:
= 100,000,000,000 meters per minute
= 1,666,666,666.66 meters per second > C (299 792 458 meters per second)
That is, anything sitting on the circumference of the topmost motor would be going at faster than the speed of light.
Talk about getting dizzy… O.o
Seriously though, what do you propose as a solution to the centrifugal force issue?
Well I’m not an engineer but if you’re talking about the force acting away from the center (that is, pushing the lazy susans out of balance by virtue of their motion), perhaps you could use a stabilising bar on the outside? Or some sort of axle through the center of each disc? To reduce frction you could use some sort of electromagnetic repulsion? Or you could do in space?
reminds me of the large gear/small gear situation; a small gear will rotate faster than a lrger gear its meshed to. If you have the right ratio & speed, the small gear could go FTL.
Even it you manage to raise the speed of the top lazy susan to near c, observaions of particles near a black hole shows that they go so fast & hot it gives off high amounts of X-rays.
I recall when the atomic bomb was being made, it was feared that it would burn so hot that it will fry the whole atmosphere. This FTL table could do that.
In autumn 1996, a rift in the fabric of spacetime opened and I was pelted with a selection of sandwiches and a bowl of mustard. Could this be related to your experiment?
I don’t know yet, but I’m hoping so!!!!!!