Author: Marc G. Millis
Publisher: AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics)
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Frontiers of Propulsion Science is the first-ever compilation of emerging science relevant to such notions as space drives, warp drives, gravity control, and faster-than-light travel - the kind of breakthroughs that would revolutionize spaceflight and enable human voyages to other star systems. Although these concepts might sound like science fiction, they are appearing in growing numbers in reputable scientific journals. This is a nascent field where a variety of concepts and issues are being explored in the scientific literature, beginning in about the early 1990s. The collective status is still in step 1 and 2 of the scientific method, with initial observations being made and initial hypotheses being formulated, but a small number of approaches are already at step 4, with experiments underway. This emerging science, combined with the realization that rockets are fundamentally inadequate for interstellar exploration, led NASA to support the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project from 1996 through 2002.""Frontiers of Propulsion Science"" covers that project as well as other related work, so as to provide managers, scientists, engineers, and graduate students with enough starting material that they can comprehend the status of this research and decide if and how to pursue it in more depth themselves. Five major sections are included in the book: Understanding the Problem lays the groundwork for the technical details to follow; Propulsion Without Rockets discusses space drives and gravity control, both in general terms and with specific examples; Faster-Than-Light Travel starts with a review of the known relativistic limits, followed by the faster-than-light implications from both general relativity and quantum physics; Energy Considerations deals with spacecraft power systems and summarizes the limits of technology based on accrued science; and, From This Point Forward offers suggestions for how to manage and conduct research on such visionary topics.
Frontiers of Propulsion Science
Author: Marc G. Millis
Publisher: AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics)
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Frontiers of Propulsion Science is the first-ever compilation of emerging science relevant to such notions as space drives, warp drives, gravity control, and faster-than-light travel - the kind of breakthroughs that would revolutionize spaceflight and enable human voyages to other star systems. Although these concepts might sound like science fiction, they are appearing in growing numbers in reputable scientific journals. This is a nascent field where a variety of concepts and issues are being explored in the scientific literature, beginning in about the early 1990s. The collective status is still in step 1 and 2 of the scientific method, with initial observations being made and initial hypotheses being formulated, but a small number of approaches are already at step 4, with experiments underway. This emerging science, combined with the realization that rockets are fundamentally inadequate for interstellar exploration, led NASA to support the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project from 1996 through 2002.""Frontiers of Propulsion Science"" covers that project as well as other related work, so as to provide managers, scientists, engineers, and graduate students with enough starting material that they can comprehend the status of this research and decide if and how to pursue it in more depth themselves. Five major sections are included in the book: Understanding the Problem lays the groundwork for the technical details to follow; Propulsion Without Rockets discusses space drives and gravity control, both in general terms and with specific examples; Faster-Than-Light Travel starts with a review of the known relativistic limits, followed by the faster-than-light implications from both general relativity and quantum physics; Energy Considerations deals with spacecraft power systems and summarizes the limits of technology based on accrued science; and, From This Point Forward offers suggestions for how to manage and conduct research on such visionary topics.
Publisher: AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics)
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Frontiers of Propulsion Science is the first-ever compilation of emerging science relevant to such notions as space drives, warp drives, gravity control, and faster-than-light travel - the kind of breakthroughs that would revolutionize spaceflight and enable human voyages to other star systems. Although these concepts might sound like science fiction, they are appearing in growing numbers in reputable scientific journals. This is a nascent field where a variety of concepts and issues are being explored in the scientific literature, beginning in about the early 1990s. The collective status is still in step 1 and 2 of the scientific method, with initial observations being made and initial hypotheses being formulated, but a small number of approaches are already at step 4, with experiments underway. This emerging science, combined with the realization that rockets are fundamentally inadequate for interstellar exploration, led NASA to support the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project from 1996 through 2002.""Frontiers of Propulsion Science"" covers that project as well as other related work, so as to provide managers, scientists, engineers, and graduate students with enough starting material that they can comprehend the status of this research and decide if and how to pursue it in more depth themselves. Five major sections are included in the book: Understanding the Problem lays the groundwork for the technical details to follow; Propulsion Without Rockets discusses space drives and gravity control, both in general terms and with specific examples; Faster-Than-Light Travel starts with a review of the known relativistic limits, followed by the faster-than-light implications from both general relativity and quantum physics; Energy Considerations deals with spacecraft power systems and summarizes the limits of technology based on accrued science; and, From This Point Forward offers suggestions for how to manage and conduct research on such visionary topics.
Annotated Bibliography on the Economic History of India, 1500 A.D. to 1947 A.D.
Author: Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Sea Fisheries Research
Author: F. R. Harden Jones
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Climate and Fisheries
Author: D. H. Cushing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Methods for Assessment of Fish Production in Fresh Waters
Author: William Edwin Ricker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fish populations
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fish populations
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Standard & Poor's Stock Reports
Along the Soo Line and 39
Author: Rita G. Nelson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780919781474
Category : Wilcox (Sask.)
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780919781474
Category : Wilcox (Sask.)
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Reflections by the Quills
Author: Quill Historical Society
Publisher: Wyngard, Sask. : Quill Historical Society
ISBN: 9780889251496
Category : Big Quill Lake Region (Sask.) Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Publisher: Wyngard, Sask. : Quill Historical Society
ISBN: 9780889251496
Category : Big Quill Lake Region (Sask.) Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Whispering Winds of Yesteryear : Glen Bain R.M. #105
Author: Glen Bain Historical Society
Publisher: Glen Bain, Sask. : Glen Bain Historical Society
ISBN: 9780919781726
Category : Glen Bain (Sask. : Rural municipality)
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Publisher: Glen Bain, Sask. : Glen Bain Historical Society
ISBN: 9780919781726
Category : Glen Bain (Sask. : Rural municipality)
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Follow the Furrow
Author: Ukrainian Historical Committee
Publisher: North Battleford, Sask. : Ukrainian Historical Committee
ISBN: 9780919829015
Category : Immigrants Saskatchewan North Battleford Region
Languages : en
Pages : 855
Book Description
Publisher: North Battleford, Sask. : Ukrainian Historical Committee
ISBN: 9780919829015
Category : Immigrants Saskatchewan North Battleford Region
Languages : en
Pages : 855
Book Description