Re: Gravity and Black Globes

> 	Here is some stuff which a friend of mine has ask me to repost.
>
>      1)  Can a ship in a black globe be detected by a densitometer?
>      2)  Can a ship in a black globe be affected by a repulsor or
>  tractor?

	I'm neither particularly knowledgable about physics nor traveller,
but the impression I seemed to get from reading about Black Globes was that
they weren't so much mass as energy of a sort... or to be more specific,
lack of energy.  I suppose that the simplest way to think of them is that
they generate a field of some sort that then conducts energy directed at
it into some storage medium hooked up to the field generator.  Since energy
cannot escape from the Black Globe, it would seem reasonable that the
densitometer cannot detect the mass of the ship within it... then again,
if the densitometer works not by detecting gravitic energy, but by sensing
the changes in the "shape of space" caused by mass, it would be reasonable
to assume that it CAN detect the ship.  Too many unknowns, I suppose.

>      Mass is related to momemtum (the faster you go the heavier you get).

	Uh, not quite... it's sort of the other way around.  Just because
there is a Mass ==> Momentum relationship doesn't mean that there is a
Momentum ==> Mass relationship.

>      If a ship has momemtum it has mass (as far as I know, at least
> according to Einstein's theories).

	If a ship has mass and is moving, it has momentum (same disclaimer).

> However, I don't know if it has the mass that could be detected by a
> densitometer (I don't believe densitometers measure mass as such).

	Same problem as above... I'm not really sure how densitometers
could detect gravity...

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