The Relativistic Rocketeer

This book provides an eclectic mix of advanced starship-propulsion scenarios. Some portions of the book include advanced mathematics while other portions are merely arithmetical and prosaic. Methods for obtaining extreme Lorentz factors are conjectured including supporting energy sources and necessary spacecraft shielding. The reader of the book will come away with a new understanding of the ramifications of travel at near the speed of light and how this may be accomplished. My...
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This book provides an eclectic mix of advanced starship-propulsion scenarios. Some portions of the book include advanced mathematics while other portions are merely arithmetical and prosaic. Methods for obtaining extreme Lorentz factors are conjectured including supporting energy sources and necessary spacecraft shielding. The reader of the book will come away with a new understanding of the ramifications of travel at near the speed of light and how this may be accomplished. My intention in presenting scenarios for extreme Lorentz factors is to embolden the theoretician and applied-physics practitioners with the understanding that plausible mechanisms may enable cosmic-scale distance and future time travel during periods as short as the Planck time unit in the ship frame.