pacetime transport.

The key requirement that Thorne identified was the creation of a Jupiter mass of "exotic" matter - that is, matter with negative rest mass. Thorne's work put discussion of rapid spacetime transport on the public agenda of serious science. It also set the benchmark for what has to be done to achieve truly advanced propulsion.

Being able to create the stupendous exotic mass of stuff needed to make stargates and warp drives is the holy grail of advanced propulsion. A less ambitious, but nonetheless revolutionary, goal is finding a way to accelerate a spaceship without having to lug along a gargantuan reservoir of fuel. And this may be possible. There has been progress on both the theoretical and experimental fronts since early 1990s.

Making Stars and Stargates has three parts. The first discusses the theories of relativity needed to understand the possible propulsion techniques. The second addresses experimental investigations into the feasibility of the predicted effects; that is, do the effects exist, and can they be applied to propulsion? The third part of the book - the most speculative - examines the questions: What physics is needed if we are to make wormholes and warp drives? Is such physics plausible? And how might we go about actually building such devices?

45:T473,"Ravishingly beautiful." — Joshua Ferris, New York Times A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below. We glimpse moments of their earthly lives through brief communications with family, their photos and talismans; we watch them whip up dehydrated meals, float in gravity-free sleep, and exercise in regimented routines to pre

Release Year	Rating
2023	3.77
2021	4.63
2019	4.27
2019	4.45
2021	3.73
2005	3.73
5	3.59
2020	3.78
2020	3.47
2013	3.52
2017	0
2012	0
2016	4.01
2012	3.62
1998	3.63
1984	3.66
2010	4
1962	4.05
1978	3.94
2014	4.05
1961	4.24
	0
2015	3.5
2017	4.13
2014	4.12
2016	4.43
2015	3.99
2013	0
2014	4
1915	3.7
2005	0
1955	4.2
1976	3.86
2012	0
1911	4.09
1973	3.67
1963	4.57
1970	4.2
	0
2012	0
1989	3.63
1962	3.9

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