Re: potential energy
In reply to #3342 Re: grav potential by C. Roald
> From: Adrian Hurt [email removed] > Subject: (3356) Re: potential energy > > "C. Roald" [email removed] writes: > > More plausible would be to get it as kinetic energy, > > but physical reality would almost certainly produce it as heat. Which > > would vapourise the ship, very quickly. > > Great. Every ship that executes a jump gets fried when it re-enters our > universe. This ought to ruin the day of a good few traders! :-) Since the original energy from the drives goes into the jumpfield, which is held up during the entire jump to isolate from 'jumpspace' and the nessesary energy for compensating for kinetic differences between the two locally strongest gravitational sources and the difference in potential energy is taken from it. Isn't it easy to assume that an energy gain will be deposited in this field? If it is, it would probably be radiated as heat energy when the field breaks down at jump-exit. Is this enough to damage the ship? The density of radiation (in the IR band, probably) is the determining factor here, and I don't know enough physics to compute it without a lot of litterature that I don't carry with me. - -bertil- - -- "It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond-the-fringe political view or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an exercise for your kill-file."