Lunchtime on Lunar One -Is Hyper-Space Travel Possibile?

"The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible."
-Albert Einstein

Last year the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics awarded a prize to Walter Dröscher and Jochem Häuser, a physicist and computer scientist, for an experimental process that might make hyper-space travel a reality (Image: anti-gravity spacesuit).

If the process works it could get a spaceship to and back in about five hours. The Experimental theories proposed by Dröscher and Häuser involving using a large ring centered around a super-conducting coil, once power is provided to the coil and an electromagnetic field is in place the ring will float. In essence this will produce a magnetic field strong enough to reduce the effects of earth's gravity on the spacecraft.

An article in the New Scientist revels some of the forces that would be at work if this experiment was put to the test: "...to completely counter Earth's pull on a 150-tonne spacecraft a magnetic field of around 25 tesla would be needed. While that's 500,000 times the strength of Earth's magnetic field, pulsed magnets briefly reach field strengths up to 80 tesla."

These forces if applied with enough power could create graviphotons, that would react with conventional gravity making for an anti-gravity reaction. This reaction would create or send the ship (the scientists themselves seem a bit unclear as to the details, but what can you do, its quantum mechanics!) into dimensional hyper-space, where light could move much faster.This new type of scientific understanding could redefine space travel in the coming millennia. The massive fuel burnout of the booster pods on conventional spaceships would be replaced by a much more this much more efficent form of transportation. The worries of extended travel times and their possibly destructive consequences would be unnecessary, although they will most probably be replaced with a different sorts of problem.

The difficulties encountered would be, literally out of this world. The hyper-space reality and the experiment process developed for accessing it are based on the research of Burkhard Heim, a German Physicist whose work on a propulsion theory is based in the field of quantum mechanics, a field of study that is hard to understand even for the people that discovered it. Richard Feynman is famously and continuously quoted as saying "I think I can safely say that no-one understands quantum mechanics."

Quantum physics and general relativity have been at odds with each other for many years, and physicists all around the globe have been working hard to change this discrepency and heal the rift in the world of physics. Burkhard heim was attempting to complete this healing, the same healing he could not do for his own body for he was confined to a wheelchair at age nineteen while working in an explosives factory.

During his younger years he was a brilliant and self-driven student, after the accident he become extremely reclusive and after his theories went public in 1957 he almost completely disappeared from public view. This recent unveiling of Dröscher and Häuser's experimental propulsion system returns these brilliant theories to where they should be, updating and redesign the annals of physics.

Heim's theories have the potential to unite the fabric of the universe and it's strange and slippery insulation, hIs theory takes the four dimensions of space and time and adds a few. These new dimensions are the thread that connects the fabric of space time and once they are understood fully could bring the stars within our reach. Of course the question must be asked: is that a good thing? There are a lot of planets out there, maybe we should figure out how to live on this one first...

Posted by Asido.