Blueprint for Interstellar Travel by Paul Kirsch

Author:Paul Kirsch [Kirsch, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
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Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2017-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

Figure 5.5 Fritz London

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Later, Nobel Laureate (and near iconographic figure in terms of humanizing arcane quantum physics) Richard Feynmann further explained the mechanisms of condensates —the ways that particles work together as one—in liquid helium.7 (Figure 6.6).

Figure 5.6 Richard Feynman

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Experimental evidence showing the presence of condensates deliberately created in the laboratory didn’t surface until 19958 when Anderson, Mathew, Wieman, and Cornell showed this effect in atoms of rubidium gas. This won Cornell, Wiemann and their colleague Ketterle the Nobel Prize 2001.

In his initial research, Michael Miller specifically chose a unique superconductive material, Niobium Tin, to function as a BEC. This particular material is also called a “Type-II superconductor”.

The actual way that Niobium Tin becomes a condensate is complex. In broad terms, we can say that Type-II superconductors have spinning magnetic field lines (or what is known scientifically as “magnetic vortices” that function in a lattice. Think of evenly spaced tiny spinning tornadoes) that are equivalent to the vortex state of superfluid helium as associated with Feynman above.

After the probe (that has a superconducting surface) functions as a condensate, we are able to create the conditions for our desired transit. This is because we want our whole probe to be functioning as a giant virtual electron, tunneling to its positron match.

Superconductors have many other delightful properties, which may prove useful in our endeavor. These include the fact that they:

• Store energy

• Exhibit the Meisner effect (in which an external magnetic field does not enter a superconductor) – and the theory that they may:

• interact with gravity waves

• interact with dark energy

A quick summary of these points is useful. Superconductors can store magnetic energy for an essentially infinite period of time when exposed to a magnetic field. They don’t generally lose power because there is no resistance for the electric currents.

They can be used in altering magnetic fields in what is known as the Meisner effect. In the Meisner effect, the magnetic field lines emanating from a surface below enable an object to be suspended above, remarkably, in a stable position in the air. This is known as the “flux trapping effect,” in which there is both attraction (around the outside) and repulsion (around the core) of the superconductor. This enables a superconductor to be positioned at a fixed distance above a magnet. (Wikipedia Commons image, altered)

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