Making Starships and Stargates: The Science of Interstellar Transport and Absurd

Description: Making Starships and Stargates by James F. Woodward To create the exotic materials and technologies needed to make stargates and warp drives is the holy grail of advanced 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? FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Notes Summarizes many different proposals and published papers on the actual construction of advanced spacecraft and "gates" to other regions of spaceCovers current theory, latest and ongoing investigations and experiments, and speculation on what might and might not be feasibleDiscusses the most advanced work on the physics of rapid spacetime transport, including traveling through wormholes Back Cover What is needed to get around the galaxy quickly has been known in science fiction since at least the 1960s TVs Star Trek made famous "warp drive" and a bunch of attendant, less well-known "technologies." Some of the episodes even featured "stargates," portals to the distant past or future. Until the 1980s, all this was regarded in the serious scientific community as speculative, if entertaining, silliness. That situation changed when Kip Thorne, instigated by Carl Sagan, reverse engineered the general relativistic requirements for any technology purporting to enable such rapid spacetime transport. The key requirement that Thorne identified was the creation of a Jupiter mass of "exotic" matter - that is, matter with negative rest mass. Thornes work put discussion of rapid spacetime transport on the public agenda of serious science. It also set the benchmark for what has to be done to achieve truly advanced propulsion. Being able to create the stupendous exotic mass of stuff 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. And this may be possible. There has been progress on both the theoretical and experimental fronts since early 1990s. Making Stars and Stargates has three parts. The first discusses the theories of relativity needed to understand the possible propulsion techniques. The second addresses 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 - examines the questions: What physics is needed if we are to make wormholes and warp drives? Is such physics plausible? And how might we go about actually building such devices? Author Biography Dr. James F. Woodward is a professor of history emeritus and adjunct professor of physics at California State University Fullerton. Jim earned bachelors and masters degrees in physics at Middlebury College and New York University (respectively) in the 1960s. From his undergraduate days, his chief interest was in gravitation. For his Ph.D., he changed to the history of science, writing a dissertation on the history of attempts to deal with the problem of "action-at-a-distance" in gravity theory from the 17th to the early 20th centuries (Ph.D., University of Denver, 1972). On completion of his graduate studies, Jim took a teaching job in the history of science at California State University Fullerton (CSUF), where he has been ever since. Shortly after his arrival at CSUF, he established friendships with colleagues in the Physics Department who helped him set up a small-scale, table-top experimental research program doing offbeat experiments related to gravitation - experiments which continue to this day. In 1980, the faculty of the Physics Department elected Jim to an adjunct professorship in the department in recognition of his ongoing research. Table of Contents Foreword by John Cramer.- Part I: Inertia, Machs Principle, and Mach Effects.- Chapter 1: The Principle of Relativity and the Origin of Inertia.- Chapter 2: Machs Principle.- Chapter 3: Mach Effects.- Part II: Do Mach Effect Exist?.- Chapter 4: Getting in Touch with Reality.- Chapter 5: In Realitys Grip.- Part III: Exotic Physics, Spacetime Transport, and Mach Effects.- Chapter 6: Advanced Propulsion in the Era of Wormhole Physics.- Chapter 7: Where Do We Find Exotic Matter?.- Chapter 8: Making the ADM Electron Plausible.- Chapter 9: Making Stargates.- Chapter 10: The Road Ahead.- Select Bibliography.- Index. Review "The author looks into published scientific papers in those topics on the possibility of travel at light-speed using different methods, looking into the physics and mathematics there etc. … the book also has excellent bibliography which can guide you either in the more popular books direction or to some more technical books. I found that it was interesting, well written and followed a logical structure so you see how the different principles and concepts are all necessary for it." (AstroMadness.com, October, 2016) Review Quote "The author looks into published scientific papers in those topics on the possibility of travel at light-speed using different methods, looking into the physics and mathematics there etc. ... the book also has excellent bibliography which can guide you either in the more popular books direction or to some more technical books. I found that it was interesting, well written and followed a logical structure so you see how the different principles and concepts are all necessary for it." (AstroMadness.com, October, 2016) Feature Summarizes many different proposals and published papers on the actual construction of advanced spacecraft and "gates" to other regions of space Covers current theory, latest and ongoing investigations and experiments, and speculation on what might and might not be feasible Discusses the most advanced work on the physics of rapid spacetime transport, including traveling through wormholes Details ISBN1461456223 ISBN-10 1461456223 ISBN-13 9781461456223 Media Book Short Title MAKING STARSHIPS & STARGATES 2 Language English Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Place of Publication New York, NY Country of Publication United States DEWEY 620 Year 2012 Publication Date 2012-12-14 Subtitle The Science of Interstellar Transport and Absurdly Benign Wormholes Pages 279 Edition 2013th Illustrations 85 Illustrations, color; 7 Illustrations, black and white; XXVI, 279 p. 92 illus., 85 illus. in color. Format Paperback DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-5623-0 UK Release Date 2012-12-14 AU Release Date 2012-12-14 NZ Release Date 2012-12-14 US Release Date 2012-12-14 Author James F. Woodward Publisher Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Edition Description 2013 ed. Audience Professional & Vocational Series Space Exploration We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137820453;

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