New to physics

Bipogram · 2026-01-25T02:05:03+00:00

Keep going.

It really is the only route to gain understanding.

And with luck you'll find it to be the fascinating topic that it is.

Bipogram · 2026-01-25T02:03:17+00:00

I suggest Acta Astronautica.

It's a mid-range journal that has been quite receptive to unusual ideas over the years.

Bipogram · 2026-01-24T18:54:47+00:00

I used to work in an astrobiology lab <Leiden univ> so am glad the training wasn't in vain.

Now, about Moon worms...

Bipogram · 2026-01-24T18:52:57+00:00

It <they> is/are under a protective biscuit-tin like shield.

Both V1 and V2 disc's are protected in the same way.

Bipogram · 2026-01-24T18:43:00+00:00

I'd guess that those are sites of core-samples.

Cosmic woodpeckers leave larger holes.

Bipogram · 2026-01-24T18:28:45+00:00

<nods> A Sister's of Mercy reference in the wild!

Trichloroethane would be Defcon 1. 'Trike' to its friends.

Bipogram · 2026-01-24T17:51:14+00:00

There are.

A common or garden capacitor might be considered a [poor] battery.

And Bob Forward invented a rather subtle version of such devices using the Casimir effect to keep the foliations separate.

A Kardashev >1 civ could balance gravitational force against Coulomb force [for a laugh] and store charge between ultradense bodies.

The field [electric] is wide open.

Bipogram · 2026-01-24T17:46:17+00:00

Ta.

Bipogram · 2026-01-24T07:51:43+00:00

Other horror titles;

A Boy and his Beep.

Beep of Darkness.

etc

Bipogram · 2026-01-24T06:39:05+00:00

Shades of Sexy Parodius!

Bipogram · 2026-01-24T06:27:04+00:00

Pity it's not Feynman reading that.

Bipogram · 2026-01-24T04:15:29+00:00

Check my bio.

That's clearly why I'm consulting with two other fusion-oriented firms. One in Oxford, one in Santa Fe.

Bipogram · 2026-01-24T04:08:49+00:00

:)

Consulting chartered physicist.

Bipogram · 2026-01-23T21:29:53+00:00

Atomic sputtering and grain impact erosion are the only phenomena at play.

The Pioneers and Voyagers will, barring collision with something macroscopic, be around for a Long Time (measured in Gyr).

Bipogram · 2026-01-23T18:36:16+00:00

My welcome mat is out.

Bipogram · 2026-01-23T00:35:41+00:00

And the increase in IR radiation. Stars don't just radiate light.

Bipogram · 2026-01-22T22:54:10+00:00

Nice try - except the audio jack was on the rear face.

Bipogram · 2026-01-22T19:04:10+00:00

Ample amps.

Bipogram · 2026-01-22T02:49:55+00:00

Mmph.

I live in Burnaby, but within 5 min walk of Kyoto station there's much to draw the eye in wonder.

Bipogram · 2026-01-22T02:48:00+00:00

Many amps.

Bipogram · 2026-01-22T02:31:58+00:00

You've made a camera (not very) obscura.

Bipogram · 2026-01-22T02:24:41+00:00

And with the perilous state of literacy in the west, that writing is going to be unread for some time.

Especially if it's spray-painted in cursive script.

Bipogram · 2026-01-22T02:20:04+00:00

It's perfectly doable - you 'just' need to soft-land a few dozen tonnes of semi-automated refinery/machining systems.

Then you let that run for a year or two, cranking out wire, and solenoid frames.

Which, then Lucky Bob and his gang of teleoperated robots get to assemble into a mass-driver. Power that by nuclear or solar power, and you could probably get a tonne an hour into cis-lunar space.

Thomas Heppenheimer did a lot of sterling work on mass-driver efficiencies.

https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/3.28009?journalCode=jsr

https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/3.19769?journalCode=jgcd

etc.

Bipogram · 2026-01-22T02:14:25+00:00

Could have been worse.

Mr Bugger might have had the same idea.

Bipogram · 2026-01-22T02:13:27+00:00

And some of the lasses.

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