PSI Blog 20210906 Faster than light speed?
This week’s book
prize goes to Joe Lennon, who asks:
“Glenn, I was thinking about
something concerning faster travel thru “Outer-space”. What holds
everything up out there, and what also slows objects traveling via that medium
is baryonic matter. So, isn’t the key to increasing travel velocity
having an electromagnetic emission
unit. Electro-magnetic, and “weak
nuclear" matter (whatever that is) severs or unravels atomic bonds.
Wouldn’t a unit that emits either of these properties break apart the baryonic
matter that slows a vehicle's speed. It makes sense that light travels so
fast if it is an electromagnetic wave. Such a wave would sunder all of the
baryonic matter that it encounters. The same should work for a vehicle
equipped with machines that emits Electromagnetic matter, right?
Also, wouldn’t g-force on a
crew piloting such a vehicle also be lessened this way? This should apply to
achieving high Mach speed in a planet’s atmosphere as well.”
[GB: Thanks for the question
Joe. Many readers probably wonder why I haven’t answered the old faster than
light question before. Mostly, it is because the velocity of wave motion is
determined by the medium. The question itself appears to descend from Einstein’s
ad hoc considering light to be a particle. A particle is a microcosm, an XYZ
portion of the universe, so the obvious conclusion would be that any microcosm,
no matter how large, also would be limited to the speed of light. That is, if
you believed, Einstein’s misuse of the Lorentz Correction Factor (see Infinite Universe Theory, p. 315) and that light is a massless
particle with perpetual motion through perfectly empty space.
You are correct in implying outer
space contains baryonic matter (space junk, asteroids, hydrogen atoms, etc.)
that would tend to slow travel and might even destroy the rocket (or flying
saucer). The resulting resistance would increase as a function of velocity. It
would take over 80 years to reach the nearest star via today’s tech. It would
take 4 years even at the speed of light.
So far, throughout our examinations
of 4.5 billion years of geological formations, we have not found one footprint or
one piece of exotic metal from anyone from Alpha Centauri. Looks like we won’t
be returning the hypothesized favor imagined by UFO buffs any
time soon.]
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