Advanced Technology
”The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke.
This story had begun in 1994 when Mexican theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a method by which a spacecraft could achieve faster-than-light speed. His proposal of “The Warp Drive: Hyper-fast travel within general relativity” was published in the science journal Classical and Quantum Gravity. In this article, he describes method of space travel later called the Alcubierre Drive, a theoretical means of traveling faster than light that does not violate the main Einstein’s physical postulate that nothing can locally travel faster than light. In this paper, he constructed a model that might transport a volume of flat space inside a “bubble” of curved space. This bubble, named as Hyper-relativistic local-dynamic space, is driven forward by a local expansion of space-time behind it, and an opposite contraction in front of it, so that theoretically a spaceship would be placed in motion by forces generated in the change made by space-time.
The first direct observation of gravitational waves was made on 14 September 2015 it was announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016. This first direct observation was reported around the world as a remarkable accomplishment for many reasons. Efforts to directly prove the existence of such waves had been ongoing for over fifty years, and the waves are so minuscule that Albert Einstein himself doubted that they could ever be detected. The observation confirms the last remaining directly undetected prediction of general relativity and corroborates its predictions of space-time distortion in the context of large-scale cosmic events and faster than speed of light space travel. It’s understood that everything that can be detected can be measured. Everything that could be detected and measured can be generated and controlled by some kind of technical device.
In 2018 US aerospace engineer and inventor Salvatore Cezar Pais patented on behalf of US NAVY a few devices that demonstrate some general principles behind electromagnetic propulsion systems that allow us to set mass of a space vehicle to zero and to create so called “quantum bubble”: energy cocoon the will hold this space vehicle and allow it to fly with any speed in any environment – air, water, interstellar space or inter-galaxy space. This electromagnetic cocoon and the flying machine inside will be absolutely immune to air and water dynamic resistance, interstellar dust and gas impact, space and star radiation.
In 2020 and 2021 Eric Lentz, and Alexey Bobrick and Gianni Martire published two scientific works that developed Miguel Alcubierre’s idea further. These works describe and theoretically deduct general principles of faster than speed of light travel by breaking so called warp barrier or speed of light barrier and rich the nearest stars within days curving space-time environment.
”The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them” – Albert Einstein.
”The history of science teaches that the greatest advances in the scientific domain have been achieved by bold thinkers, who perceived new and fruitful approaches that others failed to notice. If one had taken the ideas of these scientific geniuses, who have been the promoters of modern science, and submitted them to committees of specialists, there is no doubt that the latter would have viewed them as extravagant and would have discarded them for the very reason of their originality and profundity. As a matter of fact, the battles waged, for example by Fresnel and by Pasteur suffice to prove that some of these pioneers ran into a lack of understanding from the side of eminent scholars which they had to fight with vigour before emerging as the winners. More recently, in the domain of theoretical physics, of which I can speak with knowledge, the magnificent novel conceptions of Lorentz and Planck, and particularly Einstein also clashed with the incomprehension of eminent scientists. The new ideas here triumphed; but, in proportion as the organization of research becomes more rigid, the danger increases that new and fruitful ideas will be unable to develop freely. Let us state in a few words the conclusion to be drawn from the foregoing. While, by the very force of circumstances, research and teaching are weighted down by administrative structures and financial concerns and by the heavy armature of strict regulations and planning, it becomes more indispensable than ever to preserve the freedom of scientific research and the freedom of initiative for the original investigators, because these freedoms have always been and will always remain the most fertile sources for the grand progress of science.” – Louis Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie-Nobel Prize Winner 1929 in a speech in April 25,1978.
