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A related interesting drive: Take a ferromagnetic negative-mass object of the same mass as your spaceship. Suspend it within your spaceship with electromagnets
by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago
A related interesting drive:
Take a ferromagnetic negative-mass object of the same mass as your spaceship. Suspend it within your spaceship with electromagnets around it. To accelerate forward, try to pull the negative-mass object backwards, and vice versa. You can do the same thing if it has an innate magnetic field, or with electrostatics. (You can also do the same thing with gravity, but your acceleration will be annoyingly small)
Voila, a quote-unquote reactionless drive! (It isn't actually, the net momentum/kinetic energy of the system does not change)
But yes, there are a number of problems associated with negative mass.