vbid/9781461456230

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To create the exotic materials and technologies needed to make stargates and warp drives is the holy grail of advanced propulsion. A less ambitious, but nonetheless revolutionary, goal is finding a way to accelerate a spaceship without having to lug along a gargantuan reservoir of fuel that you blow out a tailpipe. Tethers and solar sails are conventional realizations of the basic idea. There may now be a way to achieve these lofty objectives. �Making Starships and Stargates� will have three parts. The first will deal with information about the theories of relativity needed to understand the predictions of the effects that make possible the �propulsion� techniques, and an explanation of those techniques. The second will deal with experimental investigations into the feasibility of the predicted effects; that is, do the effects exist and can they be applied to propulsion? The third part of the book � the most speculative � will examine the question: what physics is needed if weare to make wormholes and warp drives? Is such physics plausible?� And how might we go about actually building such devices? This book pulls all of that material together from various sources, updates and revises it, and presents it in a coherent form so that those interested will be able to find everything of relevance all in one place.Typham this is the title: Making Starships and Stargates The Science of Interstellar Transport and Absurdly Benign Wormholes