Re: Sand

At 11:32 AM 5/14/97 -0400, Mike Miserendino wrote:

>No, the energy requirements are still minor.  The field affects each
>particle individually, not as a whole.  The particles are not treated
as a
>single mass.  The force of the ship accelerating would need to exceed
the
>force applied to each individual particle.
	Conservation of Mass requires that the enrgy be expended against
each particle individually and sum them...
  Since each particle has next to
>no mass, there is very little inertia per particle to overcome.  If the
>particles had greater mass, and thus a larger inertia at rest state,
the
>particles would require stronger energy fields to keep them in station.
>However, I would think travel in FTL would negate the field effects for
one
>reason or another.
	Huh?  We just steped into Star Trek laws of physics...