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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Published in:Springer eBooks
Main Author: Woodward, James F. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:Springer Praxis Books
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5623-0
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505 0 |a 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. 
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