A Dark Matter Engine by O.K. Daley

[ExNihilo]

I am impressed with authoring on Warp Engines, but would like to offer an alternative of what I see as a dark matter engine - Dark Matter Engine .

 

It is conceptual, and does not assume warping, light speed or otherwise. It it summerized as follows -

 

"To create and manipulate a Black Body Radiator within a chamber in order to create propulsion from directing its radiation. Within the engine's chamber, a heating element ( based on design ) is used with the absolute cold of space. This is to create the black body radiator within the chamber. The radiation from the radiator is to be compressed and directed magnetically to faciliate a direction of heat flow of the heating element. In creating a difference of a low and high pressure space, overcoming inertia is achieved for the engine. "

 

The bottom line is, that I see it as do-able !

 

Regards,

 

Orion -

Edited January 15, 2009 by ExNihilo
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[Klaynos]

Some questions/observations:

 

Where does dark matter come into it?

What gives the energy to the blackbody emitter?

What are you heating, just the heating element?

Black body radiation is electromagnetic radiation, how do you direct this with magnets?

 

Cold doesn't flow, high temps just spread out...

[ExNihilo]

You have stated the obvious in your questions. Hence, I would recommend reading the actual article.

[Klaynos]

Question 1, you don't really seem to answer, just some handwavey stuff about -infinite temp? Which is not real. Space isn't even at absolute zero...

 

2.You again don't answer this, what could possibly have a range in temp from 0 to infinity? Infinities don't exist in reality.

 

3. Again not answered. What is the blackbody emitter you are talking about?

 

4. I have read your description of this several times, it's lacking a physical basis.

 

You need some maths to show how this would work, some nice flow equations or similar would be good.

 

ATM you just have some handwaving buzzwords....

[Severian]

The most obvious objection is that dark matter particles are not black bodies, and don't radiate in this way.