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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • I’m guessing you started seeing things about the EM drive and reactionless thrust.

    Unrah particles with wavelengths longer than the width of the universe kinda stuff.


    I’m an engineer, with a great interest in physics.

    I’m also a skeptic, so from my point of view. I would look at a similar scenario, that exists in nature.

    Assume an asteroid is accelerating toward a black hole, does it radiate away the excess energy above expected level to account for the excess Unrah radiation it absorbs?

    Does it only become apparent, when close to the event horizon, where it is masked by the other debris heating the asteroid?

    I can’t give you an answer, but I would assume there is no free lunch. The Unruh energy would not exceed the energy to accelerate the craft.
















  • I had a less experienced person with me looking at some code.

    I pointed out that a particular section of code is shit; just bad form, hard to debug and generally unpleasant to work with. I noted that the person that wrote this didn’t really know what they were doing, sure the code works and has been working for a long time, but this is not how we would do things.

    They asked “wow, who wrote this?” I replied “it was me 13 years ago”; it is a great ice breaker, in a non-critical part of the system, new people realize we all have to start somewhere.

    It also allows me to go over the standards we use, why we use them and how to simplify debugging.