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Begin the Adventure : How to Break the Light Barrier

By: Florentin Smarandache

...BEGIN the ADVENTURE How to Break the Light Barrier by A.D. 2070 Homer B. Tilton Florentin Smarandache ... ...D. 2070 Homer B. Tilton Florentin Smarandache 2 To the memory of Benjamin E. Tilton (1876-1955), a close contemporary of Albert Einstein ... ...BN: 1-931233-84-5 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 BEGIN THE ADVENTURE How to Br... ...31233-84-5 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 BEGIN THE ADVENTURE How to Break the... .... "The speed of light relative to what?" I often asked anyone who would listen. The common response was, "Light needs no specification of that ki... ...entious. She is propelled by a nuclear reactor (as are military ships and submarines of today) which superheats a working fluid or propellant to pro... ...e just finished ground training, a shared responsibility of the Air Force, Navy, NASA and the prime contractor, and you are looking forward to the ne... ...he first biweek is spent in theory and hands-on instruction. Most of your classes are in M1 because that's where your duty station is. The Bridge-C...

...For most of the 20th century, both relativity and star travel fascinated this writer. The reasons Albert Einstein concluded there is an absolute barrier at the speed of light seemed at first clear, then later not so clear upon closer...

...One's reach should exceed one's grasp. Thus we reach for Alpha Centauri with a round-trip manned and womanned mission as the proposed overarching goal under a clear plan of exploration - a grand experiment described in later chapters. Whether or not we succeed in grasping the goal under this or under any plan is not as important as it is to se...

...Prefaces. 6 -- Ch.1. Introduction . 11 -- Ch.2. The Human Barrier. 14 -- Ch.3. An Overview. 18 -- Ch.4. Acceleration Due to Light Pressure. 21 -- Ch.5. Light Sailing is Not All There Is. 27 -- Ch.6. Einstein's Light Barrier. 32 -- Ch.7. The Phase One Experiment: The First...

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