A22: Interstellar Travel - Basic considerations

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People are very good at pointing fingers, and most of them are capable of doing only that. Anybody can say, "It doesn't work," which helps exactly nobody and nothing, and very few are able to say, "Wait a minute; I think know how we could make this work." We sell Science Fiction books, therefore we are certain that many smile sarcastically right now, meaning: "Sure, fiction!"--in other words, "It doesn't work!" It is very difficult, almost impossible, to demonstrate that our Science Fiction books could be true, though we will try to do it right in this article, just to prove to ourselves that we are capable of more than just pointing fingers. 

First, few words about Science Fiction: everything we know is fiction. Take a history book; although the author tries to present only historical facts, it is impossible to know, or to reveal the absolute truth. Think of the missile attack ordered by Mr. William J. Clinton few years ago: that attack was preemptive, unjustified, inadmissible, and contrary to all democratic principles on which USA was built as a great democratic nation. The direct results of that attack were the 9/11 events which were motivated by the Al-Qaeda organization as being "revenge". Further, the Iraq Invasion followed, and everything became thousand times more complex. Now, the initial missile attack was officially motivated by Mr. Clinton as being "... a necessary measure to destroy terrorist training camps, and the bomb building factories ..." but everybody knows very well that attack was ordered during his juridical hearings connected to the "Miss Monica Lewinsky affair". The question is: "Is Miss Lewinsky the TRUE cause of this War on Terror we live today?" (Please note how history could use ordinary people to write itself!) Of course, we will never know the truth, and that makes all history books on the subject just pure, juicy, fantasist fiction.

Let's take a scientific book. Most scientists know very well that any theory is fiction until proven valid. Some of them know even a little more; for example, they know the vast majority of the Physical Laws on which our science is built do not quite work, in a deeper analysis. The result is, even the scientific books written today are very rich in Science Fiction content! Even more, rest assured the future is going to invalidate many scientific laws and theorems we know and treasure today--if not all of them. As for the so called romance, police, and even documentary books, all of them are more or less fiction, even if some are based on "true facts".

The idea we try to promote here is, our SF books contain exactly as much fiction as any other book, fiction or nonfiction. Now, one of the most important topics in our SF books is interstellar travel--the engines used for that are described in our books. We intend to prove in this article that interstellar travel is possible.

Our Atomic Universe is characterized by three major coordinates: space, matter, and time. Sure, there may be many other "dimensions" but we do not care about them, because our focus is to keep things as simple as possible. However, please note this: the space-matter-time coordinates are specific to the Atomic Universe, only. Now, we have noticed that the amount of matter in the observable Universe is a lot less then what it should be, in order to keep the galaxies together, and the scientists have named the missing mass: Dark Matter. Astronomers are looking feverishly for that Dark Matter , because it is much needed to justify the physical laws we know, but ... there is none.

Let's take them one at a time. Space: this is the great problem because space is just too vast for us. Even worse, we have noticed that peripheral galaxies are still departing with an accelerated motion which cannot be, again, explained. The force and, implicitly, the energy required to keep the observable Universe in motion has been named Dark Energy. Now, practical interstellar travel means ships capable of reaching Alpha Centaury in a matter of days, or months--let's say in maximum one Terra-year. Everything past that time limit looks more like experimental agony. The distance to Alpha Centaury is roughly 4.3 light years, and that means we need ships capable of speeds at least 4.3 times greater than the speed of light. "That is not possible!" will cry the pointing-finger people.

Now, Alpha Centaury is the closest star to us, but a decent interstellar travel technology means the possibility of reaching stars on up to 100 light-years radius, and that should be, again, within the one Terra-year maximum limit. That implies that we should build ships capable of reaching 100 times the speed of light, or even more. Based on our actual scientific knowledge, that speed is indeed impossible. However, Terra has been visited before by extraterrestrial UFO, and it is still visited today. So, let's try to benefit from that UFO experience, somehow. What we do is, we will only consider (assume) that interstellar travel is possible at speeds 100 times the speed of light--this is a sort of reverse engineering process.

If that assumption is true, then it clearly means all physical laws and scientific theories we know today are not good. Fine, this is just a pointing-finger affirmation, this time coming from us, therefore we need to explain things further. If our physical and mathematical models are not good, we have to look for other models of our reality, which would allow interstellar travel. There were UFO encounters since old times, allover our history, and they are still here, today. To us, it means the initial assumption is in fact quite true: our physical-mathematical models of reality are not good. By denying all physical laws and theorems we know today, we are able to move our science forward. In contrast, if we stick to what we know, we will never achieve anything.


Now, to come back to the main topic, the first physical notion of interest to us is space. First of all, we cannot consider space as being a dimension or coordinate in itself, because space-matter-time work all together to define our Atomic Universe, and we have many proofs for that. We can actually see the pointing-fingers jumping at our last affirmation, therefore we will explain it, although this is a minor issue. Space makes sense only in the Atomic Universe, and it is related to matter distribution. In open-space, where there is only vacuum, space still exists, and we would like you to consider space just as a frame, a support for matter to exist. As mentioned in previous articles, in order to exist the atom requires a certain amount of inside-atom space; as an extended corollary, matter needs space in order to exist.

Now, we have cornered the space as being interdependent on matter. In the same time, time in the Atomic Universe needs to have a certain format in order to accommodate for the existence of matter. Practically, without time, matter and space cannot exist, and consider only the "quantum" nature--this is the vibratory characteristic--of the atomic components. Well, we could discuss a lot about space-matter-time interdependent unity of the Atomic Universe, but we have to move past these things now.

The Atomic Universe is not the Real Universe. Even more, if you will read all our articles and our SF books, you will get the sense that our Atomic Universe is the manifestation of another Universe, which we named the "Subatomic". Even the birth of the Atomic Universe following the Big Bang proves that our Atomic Universe has appeared from "somewhere". The so called Dark Energy and Dark Matter also point towards the existence of the Subatomic Universe. In addition, our assumption that interstellar travel is possible requires that Subatomic Universe which is built differently than our Atomic Universe.

Fact is, working only with the Atomic Universe we will never achieve interstellar travel, and this is regardless of what we do to improve things. Now, the existence of the Subatomic Universe is in concordance with the initial assumption that our actual physical-mathematical models of reality are not good. There is nothing mentioning the Subatomic Universe in our actual, official science. Fine! Let's move on, and let's take a look at the nature of the Subatomic Universe.

At Time Zero, the Big Bang moment, the Subatomic became imbalanced, and that has triggered the apparition of the Atomic Universe. That imbalance has resulted in a terrible amount of energy flowing from Subatomic into Atomic, therefore building the Atomic Universe. That process is not ended, and the energy flow is still here [Dark Matter; Dark Energy]. However, that flow is "energy" for us, because we have a particular position in this two-tier process: we are in the Atomic side where we see only energy. In the Subatomic side, the "energy" is not yet energy; it is a Primordial form of Energy. "What is THAT?" will cry the pointing-fingers.

For now, please consider those Primordial Energies just a tag used to name "something" capable to generate many forms of energies in our Atomic Universe, including space, matter, and a specific form of time. Because space-matter-time do not exist in the Subatomic Universe, we could use it for our specific needs: interstellar travel! Now, it should be clear that, once we get rid of the embarrassing space-matter-time coordinates, interstellar travel becomes possible.

Yeah, the pointing-fingers guys are not going to let us live in a relaxed, creative environment; they are going to cry out very loud: "How do you annihilate space-matter-time using the Subatomic?" There are at least 6 (six) engines described in MERCY, PEASANT AMBASSADOR, and HURRAN INVASION, which use the Subatomic for 3 (three) types of Interstellar Travel Technologies. Of course, they are just Science Fiction topics ...

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First published on July 29, 2005 
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