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Begin the Adventure : How to Break the Light Barrier

By: 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 ... ... Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arb... ...ovora, Romania. More science books can be downloaded from the E-Library of Science: www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/eBooks-otherformats.htm Pr... ...n attempt to repudiate relativity; rather it is a clarification of it. It outlines an experimental design to test that clarification. It suggests t... ...rtant as it is to set a definite plan and work towards its goal. The plan outlined here is in two phases: Phase one has a high probability of succes... ...quate to rule out those speeds. ...HBT] ----------------- Professor of astronomy DI at PCC: If an experiment is performed such that "the motor tr... ...is no permanent effect and, of course, no paradox." W. Cochran (Vistas in Astronomy, Vol.3, p. 78, Pergamon Press, 1960): "It is amusing to find, in... ...ematical perspective." Further relativistic experimentation of the kind outlined in later chapters is called for. The thought experiment without ... ...www.physlink.com/ae86.cfm. [9] Gordon, Dennis Jay, Le, Charles T. Le, Astronomy, Cosmology and Astrophysics Forum, " ‘There Is No Speed Barrier ...

...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...

...ceed 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 set a definite plan and work towards its goal. The...

...- Ch.7. The Phase One Experiment: The First Starship. 37 -- Ch.8. The Phase Two Experiment: Alpha Centauri or Bust!. 45 -- Ch.9. Voyage to the Center of the Galaxy. 50 -- Ch.10. An Hypothesis: There is no Speed Barrier in the Universe. 52 --...

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