[FPSPACE] FW: Centauri Dreams - Frontiers of Propulsion Science: A Major New Text

[LARRY KLAES]

>From: Centauri Dreams <gilster at mindspring.com>
>Reply-To: Centauri Dreams <gilster at mindspring.com>
>To: ljk4 at msn.com
>Subject: Centauri Dreams
>Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:02:43 -0500 (CDT)
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>Centauri Dreams
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>Frontiers of Propulsion Science: A Major New Text
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>Posted: 10 Jun 2008 07:32 AM CDT

>http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=1918
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>Tau Zero Foundation founder Marc Millis has been anything but idle this 
>spring. The good news, which I am finally able to share, is that he and a 
>team of scientists have been compiling a book that is truly a first of its 
>kind. Frontiers of Propulsion Science is a collection of essays about where 
>we are today and where we are going with propulsion research.
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>This book is the work of many hands, and if youll peruse the list, youll 
>see it contains some of the major names in this field. Many of them, I am 
>pleased to say, are Tau Zero practitioners (for background on what a 
>practitioner of TZF is, see this background document on the Foundation).
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>Published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the 
>book is intended for aerospace engineering and science audiences, with a 
>goal of describing current research and offering pointers for following up 
>these issues. And while this will be an expensive text, designed for a 
>graduate school and above reading level, it is the intention of the Tau 
>Zero Foundation to create a companion volume oriented to broader audiences 
>that will aim to explain advanced propulsion for the layman.
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>Here is a list of authors and their papers (some titles may change):
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>Foreword
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>Burt Rutan, Scaled Composites LLC, Mojave CA
>Overview of Book
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>Marc G. Millis, NASA GRC, Cleveland OH
>A Recent History of Breakthrough Propulsion Studies
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>Paul Gilster, Centauri Dreams, Raleigh NC
>Limits of Interstellar Flight Technology
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>Robert H. Frisbee, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cal Tech, Pasadena, CA
>Prerequisites of Space Drive Science
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>Marc G. Millis
>Gravity Control within Newtonian and GR Physics
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>Eric W. Davis, Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin, Austin TX
>Gravitational Experiments with Superconductors: History  Lessons
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>George D. Hathaway, Hathaway Consulting Services, Toronto, Canada
>Nonviable Mechanical Antigravity Devices
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>Marc G. Millis
>Null Findings of Yamishita Electrogravitational Patent
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>Kenneth E. Siegenthaler  T. J. Lawrence, USAFA, Colorado Springs, CO
>Force Characterization of Asymmetrical Capacitor Thrusters in Air
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>William M. Miller, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
>Vacuum Testing of Asymmetrical Capacitor Thrusters
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>Francis X. Canning, Simply Sparse Technologies, Morgantown, WV
>Propulsive Implications of Photon Momentum in Media
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>Michael R. LaPointe, NASA MSFC, Huntsville, AL
>Experimental Tests of Woodwards Machian Propulsion
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>Martin Tajmar, et al, ARC Seibersdorf research GmbH, Austria
>Thrusting Against the Quantum Vacuum
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>Jordan Maclay, Quantum Fields LLC, Richland Center, Wisconsin
>Inertia and Gravity from the Perspective of Vacuum Fluctuations
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>Jean-Luc Cambier, US Air Force Research Labs, Edwards AFB, CA
>Relativistic Limits of Spaceflight
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>Brice Cassenti, Rensselaer, Hartford CT
>FTL Approaches in General Relativity
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>Eric W. Davis, Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin, Austin TX
>FTL Implications of Quantum Entanglement  Nonlocality
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>John Cramer, University of Washington, Seattle WA
>Limits of Space Power Technology
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>Gary L. Bennett, Metaspace Enterprises, Emmett, ID
>On Extracting Energy from the Quantum Vacuum
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>Eric W. Davis, Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin, Austin TX
>Investigating Sonoluminescence as a Means of Energy Harvesting
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>John D. Wrbanek, Gustav Fralick, and Susan Y. Wrbanek, NASA GRC
>Null Tests of Breakthrough Energy Claims
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>Scott R. Little, EarthTech International, Austin TX
>GR Computational Tools  Conventions for Propulsion
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>Claudio Maccone, International Academy of Astronautics, Torino, Italy
>Compilation of Future Research Options
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>Brice Cassenti, Rensselaer, Hartford CT
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>Eric W. Davis, Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin, Austin TX
>Prioritizing Future Research
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>Marc G. Millis, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland OH
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>The current schedule calls for the AIAA volume to appear late in 2008 (we 
>are about to enter the page proof process now). I am unaware of any other 
>text quite like this, aimed explicitly at the concepts that could take us 
>to the stars using the kind of breakthroughs in physics we are all 
>interested in studying and following up where they seem promising. As a 
>leading indicator of the now coalescing field of interstellar studies, 
>Frontiers of Propulsion Science should break useful ground indeed.
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