Making Starships and Stargates The Science of Interstellar Transport and Absurdly Benign Wormholes /
What is needed to get around the galaxy quickly has been known in science fiction since at least the 1960s TV's Star Trek made famous "warp drive" and a bunch of attendant, less well-known "technologies." Some of the episodes even featured "stargates," portals to t...
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013. |
| Series: | Space Exploration
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5623-0 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword by John Cramer
- Part I: Inertia, Mach's Principle, and Mach Effects
- Chapter 1: The Principle of Relativity and the Origin of Inertia
- Chapter 2: Mach's Principle
- Chapter 3: Mach Effects
- Part II: Do Mach Effect Exist?
- Chapter 4: Getting in Touch with Reality
- Chapter 5: In Reality's Grip
- Part III: Exotic Physics, Spacetime Transport, and Mach Effects.- Chapter 6: Advanced Propulsion in the Era of Wormhole Physics
- Chapter 7: Where Do We Find Exotic Matter?
- Chapter 8: Making the ADM Electron Plausible
- Chapter 9: Making Stargates
- Chapter 10: The Road Ahead
- Select Bibliography
- Index.