Friday, November 27, 2009

Dark power: Grand designs for interstellar travel - space - 25 November 2009 - New Scientist

Dark power: Grand designs for interstellar travel - space - 25 November 2009 - New Scientist

You may recall the 1060's proposal for intersteller travel, a ramjet propelled by hydrogen scooped up in magnetic fields as the ship sped on. The article above from SCIENCE magazine proposes something similar, propelled by scoops of dark matter!

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