Movin' On Up To Light-Speed And The Future. Volume 6.

About the Book

There is something comforting about notions of reactionary or other impulse forms of space travel. At a time when wormholes and warp-drives are common topics of discussion among many advocates of advanced spacecraft propulsion, the notion that the speed of light may be an inviolable limit can be comforting. Well, in this book I have your comfort covered in many ways. First, light-speed impulse travel would enable a crew to travel infinite numbers of light-years through space and an infinite number of years into the future in a virtual instant in the spacecraft frame. Thus, the effective velocity of the craft would be an infinite multiple of light-speed. So, attaining ever greater finite and perhaps ever greater infinite Lorentz factors may require a need to change the definition of the meaning of faster-than-light travel. Second, traveling at infinite Lorentz factors is very plausibly facilitating of an associated spacecraft leaving the space-time of origin and then popping somehow into a larger more eternal realm. This entrance into an unlimited series of ascending eternities would far out do any wormhole or warp-drive travel. Third, light-speed travel may perhaps even be accomplished in hyperspaces with one or more time dimensions. Fourth, because the velocity of light should be the same in all reference frames, a spacecraft could travel at the velocity of light with respect to another spacecraft which could travel at the velocity of light with respect to yet another spacecraft and so on. So, I present content on why traveling at ever-greater infinite Lorentz factors enables a crew to ascend the so-called levels of light-speed. In a way, such levels would be purely physical and thus far more ironic and extreme than travel in the fringe literature constructs of astral-planes. There are many, many, additional benefits to light-speed impulse travel. Back in the days while I was a teenager, I attended a private school. The school psychologist was a consecrated Catholic religious brother with dark hair and a dark beard who used to let me ride in his fancy Ford Thunderbird. The car had a black exterior and interior. Well, at about the same time, the sitcom, “The Jeffersons” was popular and the show theme song had a refrain that went like “Well we're movin' on up. (Movin' on up). To the east side.”. Even back then I was interested in interstellar travel concepts. To make a long story short, I associated the school psychologist and rides in his Thunderbird with my internalized mantra of Movin’ on up, to the future, at near light-speed. Thus, I became more hooked on special relativistic space travel and time dilation. The fire of my imagination for near light-speed travel was lit just as assuredly as the black Ford Thunderbird resembled the eternal black cosmic void. I knew then the ramifications of infinite time dilation, infinite forward time travel, and infinite travel distances through space made mathematically plausible for light-speed impulse travel. So, if you have the courage to delve into this book, or even only study select portions thereof and wade through the math, you will likely if not already also become intrigued with Movin’ on up into the future with Special Relativity. As we now have a space travel industry, we have set before us the seas of infinity. Sailing these seas is what this book is all about.

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