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Begin the Adventure : How to Break the Light Barrier

By: Florentin Smarandache

... prior books. Related analyses also appear in Speculations in Science and Technology, 1993 (ISSN 0155-7785); and in Electron and Ion Beam Science an... ...chnology, 1993 (ISSN 0155-7785); and in Electron and Ion Beam Science and Technology from The Electrochemical Society, 1968. Homer B. Tilton ... ...e explorers have found. ... If standard rockets are used to propel a space vehicle, the vehicle will be limited in its terminal velocity to a small f... ... on by the Planetary Society to launch an interplanetary sailing vessel, a vehicle whose sails would be filled by light pressure from solar radiation... ... Cosmos II; page 5: "[Some] have concluded that light sailing is the only technology we know of today that can enable interstellar flight." We felt a... ...phed, it will be seen that the acceleration drops faster than linearly as vehicle speed increases. A further braking effect not taken into account b... ...m above lightspeed. This analysis appears in Speculations in Science and Technology, Vol.16, No. 4, ISSN 0155-7785, 1993, pp. 297-303. While in a s... ...ronic Analog of Relativistic Space," in Electron and Ion Beam Science and Technology, Robert A. Bakish, editor, The Electrochemical Society press. ...

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