A new world of physics?
Jan. 7th, 2006 02:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenA news story from the last couple of days which has rather piqued my interest.
NASA is showing some interest in some proposed "hyperdrives" based on the work of the obscure German theoretical physicist Burckhard Heim.
The Register: Scientists moot gravity-busting hyperdrive
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics voted the original paper best of the year. This is also being covered in the current New Scientist:
Take a leap into hyperspace
It's based on the work of Burkhard Heim, a deaf/blind and handless scientist who as a result eschewed the conventional scientific world:
Wikipedia on Heim
As a consequence, his work, a theory unifying General Relativity with quantum theory, is largely unknown, but is finally receiving some serious scholarly attention now, 4y after his death at 76yo.
Wikipedia: Heim theory
I find it fascinating but know next to nothing about theoretical physics so am utterly unequipped to judge whether it's the next scientific revolution or a load of tosh.
In other news: Yule was quite pleasant. Drove the length and longth of the Isle of Man; mother's reported opinion on my driving, "you're quite good. I'm impressed. I was told to forget it, you'd never do it, you didn't have the coordination."
Coming soon: snowboarding! Yay!
NASA is showing some interest in some proposed "hyperdrives" based on the work of the obscure German theoretical physicist Burckhard Heim.
The Register: Scientists moot gravity-busting hyperdrive
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics voted the original paper best of the year. This is also being covered in the current New Scientist:
Take a leap into hyperspace
It's based on the work of Burkhard Heim, a deaf/blind and handless scientist who as a result eschewed the conventional scientific world:
Wikipedia on Heim
As a consequence, his work, a theory unifying General Relativity with quantum theory, is largely unknown, but is finally receiving some serious scholarly attention now, 4y after his death at 76yo.
Wikipedia: Heim theory
I find it fascinating but know next to nothing about theoretical physics so am utterly unequipped to judge whether it's the next scientific revolution or a load of tosh.
In other news: Yule was quite pleasant. Drove the length and longth of the Isle of Man; mother's reported opinion on my driving, "you're quite good. I'm impressed. I was told to forget it, you'd never do it, you didn't have the coordination."
Coming soon: snowboarding! Yay!
