Talk:Antimatter rocket
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[edit] Antimatter rockets in fiction
Maybe an "antimatter rockets in fiction" section could be added.
One such example is Peter F. Hamilton's Sci-fi space-opera "Nights Dawn Trilogy", in which Antimatter is outlawed, but used by rogue space captains with AM drives in thier spacecraft. Loeffe 20:05, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Peter F. Hamilton's space ships aren't really Antimatter rockets as described in this article, but ships that use an antimatter reactor to power a "warp-drive" type fictional FTL drive. 131.113.17.20 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.113.17.20 (talk) 06:21, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Rewrite, and references needed.
I've finished doing a major rewrite of the article to make it better-organized and to make it better reflect its source material. At least two more references need to be added:
- The Scientific American article on interstellar flight that ran in (I think) the 1990s. This mentioned beamed-core antimatter drives, as well as things like AIMStar and gas-core nuclear drives.
- A decent Brookhaven National Laboratory article describing the Valkyrie craft proposals. The link that was in the article doesn't cut it as a reliable source for a scientific article, in my opinion, and a better one should be easily available.
--Christopher Thomas 04:39, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
