The Monolithic Christmas Tree Light-Sail. Volume 7.

About the Book

This book covers a wide range of topics but mainly considers exotic types of light-sails.

In Volume 7, you will be treated to many aspects of multimode light-sail propulsion.

Regarding light-sails, you are presented content on thousands of propulsion modes of light-sails.

The general intention for including such wide varieties of light-sail modes is that they be viewed holistically in ways commensurate with eternal possibilities for human technological, scientific, social, psychological, and spiritual progress. So this book has something to offer to just about everyone.

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.

And speaking of light-sails, I like to view these craft as somewhere in the exotic between ordinary chemical rockets and still conjectural topics such as wormhole transport, warp-drives, and other similar mechanisms. However, light-sails actually work and are being tested by NASA. Light-sails do not need to carry fuel along for the missions nor do they require exotic and perhaps dangerous space-time distortion. So light-sails kind of quietly live off of the background electromagnetic energy in space. However, provided truly exotic and hypothetical negative refractive index sails, a craft so comprised can experience accelerations perhaps running away to infinite magnitudes. In this book, such possibilities are explored at the mathematical level.

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