Movin’ On Up To Light-Speed And The Future. Volume 7.

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.

About the Author

I have been a science author and interstellar propulsion researcher for about 8 years now. I became really hooked on the interstellar travel theme after responding to a thread on a popular website about interstellar travel about 14 years ago and received a very warm welcome from the site administrator . At that time, I knew I was destined to become seriously involved in this exciting field of research. My love of interstellar travel had its genesis in my childhood. Through most of my elementary school age years, I was a shy kid but one who was far from the stereotypical reserved nerdy geek. My grade school report cards where generally good but where far from the straight A cards that the academically focused students would receive. I had a very personal dream, however, that motivated me to get through the often boring school days. This dream is that for an unbounded future of human interstellar space-flight. My infatuation with manned space exploration began early in grade school, fueled by the Apollo Space Program and lunar landings and the promise of manned missions to distant planets in the not-so-distant future. It seemed as though by the 1980s, we would definitely be sending humans on Martian exploratory missions. My interest in manned space travel waned a bit during the late 1970s through the mid-1990s, but picked up again after I had read a book on real world potential interstellar travel methods based mainly on known and well established physics.