Movin’ On Up To Light-Speed And The Future. Volume 11.

About the Book

Do you long for a sense of relevance of near light-speed and even light-speed impulse travel especially with regard to extremely advanced rocket craft?

Do you long for a sense of the possibilities of traveling infinite distances through space and forward in time in a near instant in the ship-frame at effectively infinite multiples of light-speed?

Do you find that notion that the speed of light may be inviolable a bit boring but long for a sense of why it would not matter and that traveling at light-speed can open up unimaginably large and eternal realms of travel?

Are you interested in the details of spacecraft propulsion and how impulse travel to the speed of light can effectively out-do any plausible warp-drive and wormhole travel?

Are you open to new meanings of the definition of travel?

Do you hope in a future of eternal duration of Humanity and prospects for our technological development into eternity?

For those who enjoy action space travel related movies, are you off-put by the prospect that matter-antimatter reactions may be the limit of energy production.

If your answer is yes to any of the above questions then this book is for you!

The relativistic Lorentz factor of relativistic spacecraft velocities will likely lead to a change in the meaning of travel velocities which may effectively become infinite.

Back in the days while I was a teenager, I attended a private school. The school psychologist was a consecrated Catholic religious brother with dark hair and a dark beard who used to let me ride in his fancy Ford Thunderbird. The car had a black exterior and interior.

Well, at about the same time, the sitcom, “The Jeffersons” was popular and the show theme song had a refrain that went like “Well we're movin' on up. (Movin' on up). To the east side.”.

Even back then I was interested in interstellar travel concepts.

To make a long story short, I associated the school psychologist and rides in his Thunderbird with my internalized mantra of Movin’ on up, to the future, at near light-speed. Thus, I became more hooked on special relativistic space travel and time dilation. The fire of my imagination for near light-speed travel was lit just as assuredly as the black Ford Thunderbird resembled the eternal black cosmic void. I knew then the ramifications of infinite time dilation, infinite forward time travel, and infinite travel distances through space made mathematically plausible for light-speed impulse travel.

So, if you have the courage to delve into this book, or even only study select portions thereof and wade through the math, you will likely if not already also become intrigued with Movin’ on up into the future with Special Relativity. As we now have a space travel industry, we have set before us the seas of infinity. Sailing these seas is what this book is all about.

This book delves into concepts for extremely relativistic space-flight. As such, portions of matter of finite mass may theoretically as much as infinite kinetic energy. Craft having infinite Lorentz factors can travel infinite numbers of light-years thru space and an infinite number of years into the future in one tiny fraction of the second ship-time at effectively infinite multiples of the speed of light.

About the Author

I have been a science author and interstellar propulsion researcher for about 8 years now. I became really hooked on the interstellar travel theme after responding to a thread on a popular website about interstellar travel about 14 years ago and received a very warm welcome from the site administrator . At that time, I knew I was destined to become seriously involved in this exciting field of research.


My love of interstellar travel had its genesis in my childhood. Through most of my elementary school age years, I was a shy kid but one who was far from the stereotypical reserved nerdy geek. My grade school report cards where generally good but where far from the straight A cards that the academically focused students would receive. I had a very personal dream, however, that motivated me to get through the often boring school days. This dream is that for an unbounded future of human interstellar space-flight.


My infatuation with manned space exploration began early in grade school, fueled by the Apollo Space Program and lunar landings and the promise of manned missions to distant planets in the not-so-distant future. It seemed as though by the 1980s, we would definitely be sending humans on Martian exploratory missions. My interest in manned space travel waned a bit during the late 1970s through the mid-1990s, but picked up again after I had read a book on real world potential interstellar travel methods based mainly on known and well established physics.