Nanobot is hard to de-accelerate, but a robust femtobot might do better.
Hmm, using the femtobot, would it being charged and entering a conductive material slow it down due to that induction thingy, like a magnet dropped down a copper tube? Or maybe having a conductive right shaped bot, and launching it into a ludicrously strong magnetic field of a neutron star or something.?
Another option is to launch a black hole in front of it, and give both the probe and black hole extremely strong negative charge; the black hole will absorb impacting matter (also solving the problem of interstellar dust) slowing it down by averaging, simultaneously clearing a safe path for the probe and gently pushing it back as it gets closer and the charges repel.
The black hole idea is interesting. Does it even have to be a black hole?
Any big non-functional absorbent mass at the front would do, right? Maybe only a black hole would be reliable...
Maybe not even a mass. If the probe had a magnetic field, you might be able to do things with the bussard ramjet idea to slow you down and control (charged) collisions.
Nanobot is hard to de-accelerate, but a robust femtobot might do better.
Hmm, using the femtobot, would it being charged and entering a conductive material slow it down due to that induction thingy, like a magnet dropped down a copper tube? Or maybe having a conductive right shaped bot, and launching it into a ludicrously strong magnetic field of a neutron star or something.?
Another option is to launch a black hole in front of it, and give both the probe and black hole extremely strong negative charge; the black hole will absorb impacting matter (also solving the problem of interstellar dust) slowing it down by averaging, simultaneously clearing a safe path for the probe and gently pushing it back as it gets closer and the charges repel.
Femto? Explain.
The black hole idea is interesting. Does it even have to be a black hole? Any big non-functional absorbent mass at the front would do, right? Maybe only a black hole would be reliable...
Maybe not even a mass. If the probe had a magnetic field, you might be able to do things with the bussard ramjet idea to slow you down and control (charged) collisions.
not very good but good enough: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtotech
ANd I were just brainstorming, your guess is as good as mine. But yea a tiny neutron star might work.