10-10-2022, 06:31 PM
A warp-based acceleration pod is not only feasible, it may be much closer to implementation than people realize.
There is a good chance that this breakthrough will occur in secret, since governments will waste no time in weaponizing it.
There is no need for recourse to exotic states of matter, extreme high-energies, etc. It can be accomplished with a supermagnet with a device driver that overloads the Holevo Bound of information density of the quantum vacuum. This is the mechanism that accelerates super-fast pulsars to relativistic velocities before they exit the galaxy.
The solutions to the radiation and dust impact issues are also straightforward and off-the-shelf.
But the deal breaker may be Navigation.
Interstellar objects are not located where they appear in the sky. We are seeing them where they were centuries or millennia ago, from a unique point in space relative to the paths light takes through the galaxy. A given 3-D model of stellar positions for the galaxy will only be valid for positions within a few parsecs of the earth's current position. As you get further and further away in interstellar space, your navigation model of the galaxy will become more and more noisy and uncertain. The position of the interstellar planet you are attempting to rendezvous will be unknown within a sizeable area of uncertainty.
This is where Polynesian concepts of wayfinding become relevant, and even essential.
UH needs to establish a School of Interstellar Navigation based upon adaptation of Polynesian principles. And it needs to do it now.
If we do not pull this off in the next 20-30 years, it is never going to happen. May already be too late.
There is a good chance that this breakthrough will occur in secret, since governments will waste no time in weaponizing it.
There is no need for recourse to exotic states of matter, extreme high-energies, etc. It can be accomplished with a supermagnet with a device driver that overloads the Holevo Bound of information density of the quantum vacuum. This is the mechanism that accelerates super-fast pulsars to relativistic velocities before they exit the galaxy.
The solutions to the radiation and dust impact issues are also straightforward and off-the-shelf.
But the deal breaker may be Navigation.
Interstellar objects are not located where they appear in the sky. We are seeing them where they were centuries or millennia ago, from a unique point in space relative to the paths light takes through the galaxy. A given 3-D model of stellar positions for the galaxy will only be valid for positions within a few parsecs of the earth's current position. As you get further and further away in interstellar space, your navigation model of the galaxy will become more and more noisy and uncertain. The position of the interstellar planet you are attempting to rendezvous will be unknown within a sizeable area of uncertainty.
This is where Polynesian concepts of wayfinding become relevant, and even essential.
UH needs to establish a School of Interstellar Navigation based upon adaptation of Polynesian principles. And it needs to do it now.
If we do not pull this off in the next 20-30 years, it is never going to happen. May already be too late.