Faster than Light Travel

[snoopy]

This is a post in part inspired by a previous thread called 'Faster than Light Travel in 5 years' which made me laugh a lot.

But then I remembered reading about something when I was 13 some twenty years ago in which a NASA engineer had proposed using electromagnetic resonance in some sort of field propulsion device for interstellar travel. The basic idea as I remember it was to set up a resonance with the spacetime around the craft and alter it to have a resonance which was the same as the distant point where you wanted to go to. Since no velocities as such were involved there was no breaking of relativity.

But alas all my web searches were in vain and I couldnt find any article on the subject. Obviously the ideas didn't pan out or we would all be holidaying in Proxima Centauri.

But I did find some interesting things along the way.

Like this NASA website

interstellar.jpl.nasa.gov/

On this website NASA proposes sending a probe using solar sails of 200m radius which could achieve a speed of 14AU per year and distances of 400 AU.

This website gets closest to what I was looking for and may have been outsourced by NASA as a privately funded projectin 1979.

Field Resonance Propulsion

In which it says-

"In the proposed implementation high powered lasers are used to generate the megagauss fields by the effects of non-colinear temperature and density gradients (Kruer and Eastabrook, 1977; Max et al., 1978; Nishihara and Ohsawa, 1976).
By alternately pulsing adjacent laser sets, the location of the merging process can be made to oscillate back and forth at a desired rate. The amount of laser energy can be varied to alter the strength of the magnetic fields.
Thus by changing the laser's power and/or wavelength and the pulse frequency, the resultant magnetic wave form can be changed or tuned to the desired harmonic of a distant space-time point."

And if this isn't weird enough also found this site

The Serrano's Field Propulsion Thruster built and tested by Jean-Louis Naudin

In which french physicist Jean Louis Naudin builds and tests Hector Serrano's field propulsion device a propellantless engine which works in air and vacuum.

The video on this site is worth a look at the engine in action, its quite amusing and will make you smile. Its more practical than 'Lifters' or even NASA's own 'ACT' device in its application to replace rocket engines.

An amusing and troll through the weird and wacky can sometimes make you smile and fill you with a belief that maybe one day the stars might not be so very far away as they are for us today.

Cheers