Was is really NASA's idea?

 I saw Pushing the Limits of Sub-Kilowatt Electric Propulsion Technology to Enable Planetary Exploration and Commercial Mission Concepts - NASA Science and wondered what it had to do with the email that I sent to NASA on April 30, 2020. Here is the automatic response from NASA's server.

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Email: zorabih@gmail.com

Subject: From Impulse Engine to Warp Engine

First I will describe the Impulse Engine which actually works and can replace
the use of fan, as in small robots carrying some stuff. Then, I will use that
to explain how to achieve the Warp Engine.

The important idea to keep in mind is hit, as in strike. For instance,
consider two billiard balls rolling straight towards one another. At some
point they will hit one another and bounce backwards. It is the moment that
they hit one another that we are interested in.

Creating a Hit

Now, consider two iron bars with wire wrapped around them. Once we connect
two ends of wire on each of the bars they become magnetized. Let us magnetize
them such that the two ends that are facing one another become same pole.
That is the hit we are looking for. This will cause the bars to move away
from one another.

Creating Motion

The engine will be a box that will contain all the components. If we can make
the engine to move, then so will whatever the engine is attached to.

Make one of the bars fixed inside the box (the engine) so it does not move.
Suppose, to the end of the other bar we attach a spring. The spring will be
attached to the engine. Now create a hit (by magnetizing the bars). The bar
with a spring at its tail will retreat. This will cause the box as a whole
(closed system) to move in opposite direction, just like the billiard balls.

The Impulse Engine

Now we need to create smooth motion out of hits, the Impulse Engine. To that
end, note that the spring will return the swinging bar back. So, suppose we
do the following.

Make a short current, and then stop the current.

The bar with spring retreats, then it begins bouncing back.

Just when it reaches its original position, make a short current and then
stop it.

Repeat the above steps.

Let us say the spring can bounce back sufficient number of times per second
to make the hits appear to creating a smooth motion. That will be our engine.
So, how do we turn the current on/off?

Well, a simple way is to use a light switch. As we turn the current on, the
bar that retreats will allow light to reach the other end and shut down
power. As the bar comes back it will cut the light, and current will flow
again.

The power of engine can be controlled with current. It may be better to also
have additional wire wrapping on the bars on a different circuit. When needed
the other wrappings can be connected for more magnetic strength.

Application of Impulse Engine

Small robots for carrying stuff are safest initial experiments. Suppose the
part that contains engines is like a match box. Put two impulse engines at
each edge, near corners. The idea is that, the two engines at each edge will
push the match box. This provides moving back and forth. In addition, when
two engines on a diagonal are turned on, the box will rotate.

For lift off I suggest three engines as three vertices of a triangle for
stability. These impulse engines will be pushing the match box upward.

Sometimes on a snowy day cars get stuck and we need some people to push our
car. Two impulse engines at the back of the car can do that.

Since an impulse engine can easily be replaced with a warp engine, submarines
and ships can replace their fans with impulse engines. Two smaller impulse
engines in front can provide steering.

Hover crafts should replace their fans with impulse engines. The very best
use, should we achieve sufficient confidence in the use of impulse engines
would be replacing helicopters for saving people without blowing them off.

I hope human stupidity will not overcome us and that we will only use impulse
engines for good uses. Satellite and space station movements, and even
lift-off of a space shuttle are among good uses.

The Warp Engine

The basic idea of a warp engine is to remove the mechanical spring and
replace it with (motionless) electronics. Once this is achieved, we will not
need the light switch to turn current on/off. Instead, this can be done at
rates of millions or more times per second with electronic switching. Without
using too many technical/mathematical terms, such as limit point, it is not
hard to understand that as the number of switching per second increases we
get closer to the power of hit. That is, it will be as if the magnetic force
is continuously pushing the warp engine with a constant acceleration. Now, in
friction-less outer space a constant acceleration will continuously increase
the speed of a space ship.

We can calculate the distance that a warp engine travels by each hit, and
even the acceleration of the ship as a whole. At any rate, space travel
cannot be achieve by shooting mass out of the space ship. The warp engine is
the only solution. Otherwise the ship needs to carry that mass and constantly
replenish it.

Towards Warp Engine

So, how do we simulate the spring action electronically? Suppose you are
holding your hands against a car as if you want to push it. At one instant,
the driver pushes on gas and in exact same instance you push against the car.
You both stop together after a very brief moment. Now, the car hit you but
you did not move. That is because the impact of hit was transformed to
calories in your muscles. So, it is possible to reduce a hit to some form of
energy, without motion.

The most ideal case would be if the hit could be reduced to generating
electricity. Then we could use it to cool off the warp engine. Anyway, the
principle is simple.

A hit has occurred within a closed system (the warp engine). One part has
retreated like a spring, by transforming the effect of hit into energy.
Therefore the system as a whole will bounce in the opposite direction.

Sincerely, Dr. Z.
I hope you will solve the final step.



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So, was this NASA's idea or they just decided to give credit to one their scientists? There is no mention of such an engine that they claim was under research for years, and suddenly 3 years after my email they have an engine.

Anyway, for the sake of humanity I will mention a little improvement on my idea of impulse engine.

So, there are two magnets. The one that is pushed back to create motion, can be attached to a disc, like how a cylinder works in cars. Then, when the magnet is pushed back to create motion, it will simply rotate the disc while turning off the magnets, and then move the magnet back to its original position, turning the magnets back on.

It is possible to use the rotating disc to recover some of the electricity.

Dr. Z.