Making Starships and Stargates The Science of Interstellar Transport and Absurdly Benign Wormholes /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Woodward, James F. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: Springer Praxis Books
• Θέματα: Engineering.; Gravitation.; Astronomy.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.