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Between the gulf of how the article's written (PR fluff?) and the paper's/video's kind of bland approach, I'm having a hard time understanding what's going on h
by chaps 4y ago
Between the gulf of how the article's written (PR fluff?) and the paper's/video's kind of bland approach, I'm having a hard time understanding what's going on here or what the significance of this is.. or even if there is one. Are they suggesting a novel way to move forward in space without exerting anything in the opposite direction?
- hither_shores 4y agoThat "swimming" in curved spacetime is possible is well-known. The paper describes the implementation of a system for doing so.
- pmayrgundter 4y agoCan you elaborate or cite something about this? What does swimming mean?
- codethief 4y ago"Swimming in spacetime" is a reference to the following paper by Jack Wisdom: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/wisdom/swimming.pdf http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/wisdom/swimming.pdf The paper is quite accessible but here is a short summary: https://www.science.org/content/article/swimming-through-spacetime https://www.science.org/content/article/swimming-through-spa...