Questioning the Foundations of Physics To Achieve Interstellar Travel by Benjamin Thomas Solomon

Dear Benjamin Solomon,

I wanted to let you know I have taken a look at your essay. I have noticed you have not yet had a message from Jason Wolf who has been a long time member of the FQXi blogs community, frequently talking about his ideas for interstellar propulsion or space modification to facilitate it. I regret that I am unable to fruitfully discuss many of his ideas as they do not fit well with my own way of thinking about how the universe functions. However I can see that you two might have much in common in your desire to accomplish interstellar travel, despite the theoretical limitations of current theory. I will recommend he takes a look at your essay. In my essay I set out what basic physical assumptions are wrong and give an explanatory framework for physics that allows many of the current problems of physics to be overcome. High res. diagram in discussion thread. Perhaps that theoretical solution might also be useful to you in your in consideration of the important practical issues for developing interstellar travel. Kind regards Georgina.

Thanks Georgina Parry.

I searched and found this essay

http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1350?search=1

We are so very different. For starters, the wavefunction is not the particle. The wavefunction is the effect of the particle on spacetime.

Second, I used very extensive numerical modeling* to arrive at many of my results, the crux of which the Non Inertia (Ni) Field is defined as the spatial gradient of time dilation. I don't even think aether.

But thanks.

Ben

* g=(tau)c^2 took about 4 months of daily 8-10 hrs of number crunching, by the computer, not me manually doing it, to discover.

I must also add that Robert Nemiroff & his colleagues have observed a 3 photon occurance from a gamma-ray burst that suggests that quantum foam may not exists and therefore invalidate some or all of quantum gravity. Here is the article,

http://www.space.com/17399-gamma-ray-photons-quantum-spacetime.html

Hi Ben,

Wave-functions are of course probability amplitudes; they are used to describe quantum systems. In the essay contest before this one, I asserted that space-time was ontologically made of wave-functions. Readers had trouble understanding how space-time could be made of math. So in this essay, I rephrased it this way. If wave-functions had an ontological physically existing counterpart, the space-time continuum would be composed of it.

I gotta run.

Jason Wolfe

Hi Jason,

This is the real crux of the problem with quantm mechanics. Wave amplitudes as functions of probabilities were discovered by accident. There is no rigorous formulation why this is the case. And that is the real problem with quantum mechanics - it fits so lets go with it.

The real question is how are probabilites implemented in Nature. Both quantum mechanics nor string theories can explain that.

Best,

Ben

Hi Ben,

I share your dream of interstellar travel. I also wish we could travel to Mars in less than two hours. Unfortunately, the laws of physics are somewhat uncooperative. Nevertheless, this is how I think it can be done.

I started with the assumption that gravity propulsion drives (gravity field generators) are allowed by nature. For a gravity field generator to work, there has to be a way, separate from the stress energy tensor, to curve space-time. But then this raises the question: what is space-time? I decided to make a best guess at what space-time is really made of. An empty void was not helpful; I needed a medium that I could assign properties to. However, given all that we hear about virtual particles, quantum electromdynamics, DeBroglie waves, the quantum vacuum, etc., I reasoned that any of these things would ultimately be modeled with quantum mechanics and some kind of wave-function. Wave-functions describe all quantum systems (w/o exception). Wave-functions, unlike all the other mathematics in physics, wave-functions look like something that could physically exist. So I decided to elevate wave-functions to the status of an ontological physically existing medium.

The speed of light seems to be entrenched within the geometry of space-time. So I had an idea. Let's make the speed of light a characteristic of the medium. Therefore, permitivity and permeability are built in characteristics of the medium as well. But what was I going to do about space-time geometry and time dilation? Since the speed of light is intrinsically a part of space-time, I added an additional characteristic to this medium.

[math]c = \lambda f[/math]

If the medium is made of waves (borrowed from plane waves of wavefunctions), then I can use the wavelengths of these waves to ontologically create distance in space and use the frequencies to permit the progression of time.

If you do not understand why your rating dropped down. As I found ratings in the contest are calculated in the next way. Suppose your rating is [math]R_1 [/math] and [math]N_1 [/math] was the quantity of people which gave you ratings. Then you have [math]S_1=R_1 N_1 [/math] of points. After it anyone give you [math]dS [/math] of points so you have [math]S_2=S_1+ dS [/math] of points and [math]N_2=N_1+1 [/math] is the common quantity of the people which gave you ratings. At the same time you will have [math]S_2=R_2 N_2 [/math] of points. From here, if you want to be R2 > R1 there must be: [math]S_2/ N_2>S_1/ N_1 [/math] or [math] (S_1+ dS) / (N_1+1) >S_1/ N_1 [/math] or [math] dS >S_1/ N_1 =R_1[/math] In other words if you want to increase rating of anyone you must give him more points [math]dS [/math] then the participant`s rating [math]R_1 [/math] was at the moment you rated him. From here it is seen that in the contest are special rules for ratings. And from here there are misunderstanding of some participants what is happened with their ratings. Moreover since community ratings are hided some participants do not sure how increase ratings of others and gives them maximum 10 points. But in the case the scale from 1 to 10 of points do not work, and some essays are overestimated and some essays are drop down. In my opinion it is a bad problem with this Contest rating process.

Sergey Fedosin

Ben,

I need to ask if my interplanetary travel idea makes any sense. In the most basic language, it goes like this. To build a hyperdrive, you have to be able to build a gravity drive; that is, you have to be able to curve space-time. But you can't use the stress-energy tensor because that kind of mass-energy is too bulky. I rejected the idea that space-time is nothingness because I can't curve nothingness. So I said that space-time is a medium of some kind.

Gravity (curved space-time) causes light to redshift; it's called gravitational redshift. So I had an idea. Could it work in reverse? Could I generate a repeating redshift to generate a gravity field? Specifically, I would use a rapid and repeated frequency chirp to cause space-time to curve.

I accept that you might be skeptical. But I ask you: does this line of thinking at least make sense?

Thanks,

Jason Wolfe

Probably that the system is in crisis, the lack of funds probably no?

not selected ?

:) me I have so many inventions. even for the weapons but I dislike that ! ahahahah

ROTATIONS OF SPHERES..........ENERGY !!!

New turbins :) .....gravitational acceleration EQUILIBRIUM ......revolutionary !!!

Thanks, Sergey Fedosin for poiting out the furmula.

This contest should not be about popularity. The creators of string theory were reviled when it first came out about 30 yrs ago, but today it is mainstream.

This contest should be about challenges, and the closer the challenges are to our comfort zone, the less valuale the challenge. The further the stated challenges are from our comfort zone, then the stronger and more valuable the challenges are.

Best,

Ben

I see that the seti institute needs funds apparently. I am happy that this institute likes my works about the spherization'sTheory of the Universal 3D sphere by quantum 3D spheres and cosmological 3D spheres.

Interesting comportment. Let's work together, we are going to invent a spaceship ok Mr Solomon.And we shall be in the oprah winfrey show, it is cool no?

The Universe is a sphere !!! we are travallers from stars, babies of the Universal sphere.

It is fascinating.

ps I have always dreamt to work in astrobiology. It is fascinating and the word is weak.They are so numerous the lifes inside our Universal sphere in spherization. I ask me what are their forms, their technologies, their adaptations, their encodings of evolution, ...My equations help a lot for the encodings.

Be the force with you !