{"id":330,"date":"2011-04-16T09:29:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T14:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/?p=330"},"modified":"2011-04-16T14:43:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T19:43:27","slug":"space-debris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/16\/space-debris\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Debris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It occurred to me only today, while studying from Kenneth Krane\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Introductory Nuclear Physics<\/span>, that it would take pulsed magnetic fields to focus gravitons on space debris or an enemy satellite.\u00a0 The way magnetic field lines fan out from a pole of a dipole magnet would make the concept otherwise unworkable.\u00a0 Since protons in the CERN LHC travel very close to the speed of light, that part of the technology would already be available.\u00a0 There is no cross product in this case, apart from creating the magnetic field pulses.\u00a0 As far as aiming and tracking accurately and effectively from the ground, one in my position can only guess that this technology is available also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurred to me only today, while studying from Kenneth Krane\u2019s Introductory Nuclear Physics, that it would take pulsed magnetic fields to focus gravitons on space debris or an enemy satellite.\u00a0 The way magnetic field lines fan out from a pole of a dipole magnet would make the concept otherwise unworkable.\u00a0 Since protons in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrophysics","category-quantum-mechanics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}