New concept for rocket thruster exploits the mechanism behind solar flares

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今日の英語の習慣化の題材は、少し小難しいですが、宇宙空間を飛びまわるRoketの新推力理論の記事から...
要するに、現在の推力よりも効率よく、speedも出る様になると言う事です。

現在は、光以上の速度で飛ぶことは理論上不可能ですが、これからの新理論や新発見で、多分、光速以上の速度で宇宙を飛び回れる日がくるでしょう！ この記事では太陽のFlares(フレア)の仕組みを解き明かせるかも？ と言う記事ではありますが...

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A new type of rocket thruster that could take humankind to Mars and beyond has been proposed by a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL).

The device would apply magnetic fields to cause particles of plasma(link is external), electrically charged gas also known as the fourth state of matter, to shoot out the back of a rocket and, because of the conservation of momentum, propel the craft forward. Current space-proven plasma thrusters use electric fields to propel the particles.

The new concept would accelerate the particles using magnetic reconnection, a process found throughout the universe, including the surface of the sun, in which magnetic field lines converge, suddenly separate, and then join together again, producing lots of energy. Reconnection also occurs inside doughnut-shaped fusion(link is external) devices known as tokamaks(link is external).