Gravity on the ship in OOTSP

[pedestrian73]

[Bill]

[Stanley Anderson]

[The Pfifltrigg]

Good point about the mirrors there. Also, I seem to recall that Lewis himself realized the impossibility of the spherical craft, but was (as with much else in OTSP) giving a wink and a nod to the popular/pulp sci-fi of the time--- the 1930s, as pulp was becoming its own genre of literature. Also, I think, to the First Men in the Moon of H. G. Wells' novel. It would probably have been in CSL's collection called On Other Worlds, but I'm not certain.

[Erekose]

Ok.. My first venture into Heretical Thoughts on OotSP

Take a rotating black hole, throw matter into it, and you get usable energy (I read this in a book about black holes by Prof penrose I think it was.. but I digress).

Sooo.. if one could stabilise a micro-black hole (so that it didn't evaporate instantly as suggested by Hawking), it could be used as a power source for a space ship.

Give said micro-black hole an electric charge (drop electrons into it say)_, and you can hold it in place with magnetic fields...

Now.. build a space ship around this micro-black hole, and depending on the mass, one has a ship with floors which form concentric spheres with the black hole at the centre.

/me wonders how his first venture fares

[Stanley Anderson]

[Stanley Anderson]

[Messenger_of_Eden]

You guys frighten me.

[Erekose]

[Messenger_of_Eden]

So long as you are not one of the Knights who say "Ni".

[YHWH_is_Semper_Fi]

Ni

[The Pfifltrigg]

"But how can we stop saying it if we don't know what word it is?"

I think, given the other peculiarities of the Westonian space-travel technology, a black hole is probably the most reasonable solution. It obviously had something to do with the production and harnessing of Weston Rays. Presumably this particular manifestation of energy is comprised of those streams of particles which escape black holes, converted by means unknown to a relative portion of directable energy. But I'm only a lit-geek. Semper should be able to give you a better analysis of the exact formulae involved. Something to do with strengths-of-materials, I supppose.

[YHWH_is_Semper_Fi]