A Challenge: Design a Hyper-light Space Explorer
Aerospace Tuesday, August 30, 2005 . This is a SciScoop post by deanlsinclair
I wish to challenge the creative engineers of somewhere to design the first practical vehicle to explore space at greater than the velocity of light.
The immediate response of many will be, “What a silly notion! Everyone knows that there can be no speed greater than light. Einstein said so!”
It is hoped that there will be some who will consider the following set of facts, and the conclusions reached from them. These facts are, as follows:
1. Any velocity is measured with respect to a vector.
2. Independently moving objects can have no restrictions on their motions with respect to one another. Therefore, there can be no restriction on the instantaneous velocity along the instantaneous connecting vector.
Ergo, Applying Einstein’s postulate to moving bodies is arrant nonsense. (Einstein’s postulate appears to apply correctly to movement of information or energy on a carrier wave of electromagnetic energy in our examinable space, but has no pertinence to moving bodies.)
3. Instantaneous velocity and instantaneous acceleration are independent of one another.
Therefore, an object having an internal source of acceleration should, at least in theory, be able to attain any desired velocity along a predetermined vector.
Final conclusion, hyper-light exploration of space by means of some sort of vehicle is possible, at least in theory.
The technical details of working out a practical explorer designed to attain a velocity greater than light along some predetermined vector with respect to Earth, obtain information about the new universe available there and return to Earth with the information–or transmit that information back to Earth, should be an extremely interesting challenge for any research group.
It may be noted that I have no wish to see such an explorer built and launched at this time. It would be far more practical to spend the wealth needed for that in developing the first factory for making solar cells which was completely powered by solar cells.
Source: The author. Dean L. Sinclair, (BA, MS, PhD) deanlsinclair@gmail.com
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2 Responses to A Challenge: Design a Hyper-light Space Explorer
juanR
September 1st, 2005 at 8:16 am
Before to critique a theory you would study it and understand it.
i am sorry to say this but a simple look to your post indicates that you have clearly failed in both.
point 1 is rigorously false, velocities are measured with respect to systems of reference which are not vectors.
point 2 is completely false even in a nonrelativistic regime. The motion of both particles isrestricted, e.g. aceleration of body A with respect to B may be zero. Energy may be also conserved and this restrict also movement.
point 3 is also false. v = v0 + at. A change on instantaneous aceleration implies a change on instantaneous velocity.
Etc.
In theory it is “possible” fasther than light travel. Engineers would “simply” construct an engine for transforming real mass and time in imaginary quantities, and, therefore, the engine would leave our unverse for always.
That, even ignoring that travel could newer be stopped, and the breaking with Newtonian limit, and decomposition of matter due to non-bounded character of energy, and…
deanlsinclair
September 2nd, 2005 at 10:14 am
I’m wondering what your science background is. You speak with great autority; but, I’m sorry to say not really in my language….It seems to me that you are assuming certain mathematical ideas to be reality. DS