VARIES could solve the problem of interstellar travel
Friday, 20 July 2012 12:30
http://hainanwel.com/en/unusual-world/1800-varies.html
Scientists from the Icarus Interstellar project offers an interstellar ship, there will be use a completely new type of jet engine - the VARIES, where the jet momentum created by the annihilation of matter with antimatter, which is received by the Quantum oscillations in vacuum, which creates the possibility of reaching the spacecraft speeds close to the speed of light. The project (Vacuum to Antimatter-Rocket Interstellar Explorer System, VARIES) first proposed a realistic and relatively effective way of generating antimatter using a powerful laser pulse, which can hold quantum oscillation of the vacuum, in which appear a pair of particles of electron-positron annihilation which follow and create a the necessary impetus for the Reactive spacecraft. According to the foundations of quantum mechanics, the vacuum is not an absolute emptiness, but full of vacuum oscillations or vibrations, which makes it possible under certain conditions, the birth electron-positron pairs directly from the vacuum, as predicted by Schwinger nearly 50 years ago. With the help of magnetic trap is supposed to keep antimatter annihilation from premature and use it to interstellar travel.