Moving the website to a blog format

Need some help.

I would like to transfer and replace my www.iseti.us html web site to WordPress blog format,  and add the existing website to this blog, while preserving the existing blog content.

I read through some of the WordPress instructions and could not follow it as I have been out of IT for far too long.

Any advice? Send me email.

Thanks

Ben

The Kline Directive: Technological Feasibility (2b)

To achieve interstellar travel, the Kline Directive instructs us to be bold, to explore what others have not, to seek what others will not, to change what others dare not. To extend the boundaries of our knowledge, to advocate new methods, techniques and research, to sponsor change not status quo, on 5 fronts, Legal Standing, Safety Awareness, Economic Viability, Theoretical-Empirical Relationships, and Technological Feasibility.

In this post I discuss three concepts, that if implemented should speed up the rate of innovation and discovery so that we can achieve interstellar travel within a time frame of decades, not centuries.

Okay, what I’m going to say will upset some physicists, but I need to say it because we need to resolve some issues in physics to distinguish between mathematical construction and conjecture. Once we are on the road to mathematical construction, there is hope that this will eventually lead to technological feasibility. This post is taken from my published paper “Gravitational Acceleration Without Mass And Noninertia Fields” in the peer reviewed AIP journal, Physics Essays, and from my book An Introduction to Gravity Modification.

The Universe is much more consistent than most of us (even physicists) suspect. Therefore, we can use this consistency to weed out mathematical conjecture from our collection of physical hypotheses.  There are two set of transformations that are observable. The first, in a gravitational field at a point where acceleration is a compared to a location at 0 an infinite distance from the gravitational source, there exists Non-Linear transformations Γ(a) which states that time dilation t_a/t₀, length contraction x₀/x_a, and mass increase m_a/m₀, behave in a consistent manner such that:

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The second consistency is Lorentz-Fitzgerald transformations Γ(v) which states that at a velocity v compared to rest at 0, time dilation t_v/t₀, length contraction x₀/x_v, and mass increase m_v/m₀, behave in a consistent manner such that:

 (2)

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Now here is the surprise. The Universe is so consistent that if we use the Non-Linear transformation, equation (1) to calculate the free fall velocity (from infinity) to a certain height above the planet’s or star’s surface, and it’s corresponding time dilation, we find that it is exactly what the Lorentz-Fitzgerald transformation, equation (2) requires. That there is this previously undiscovered second level of consistency!

You won’t find this discovery in any physics text book. Not yet anyway. I published this in my 2011 AIP peer reviewed Physics Essays paper, “Gravitational Acceleration Without Mass And Noninertia Fields”.

Now let us think about this for a moment. What this says is that the Universe is so consistent that the linear velocity-time dilation relationship must be observable where ever velocity and time dilation is present, even in non-linear spacetime relationships where acceleration is present and altering the velocity and therefore the time dilation present.

Or to put it differently, where ever Γ(a) is present the space, time, velocity and acceleration relationship must allow for Γ(v) to be present in a correct and consistent manner. When I discovered this I said, wow! Why? Because we now have a means of differentiating hypothetical-theoretical gravitational fields, and therefore mathematical conjectures, from natural-theoretical gravitational fields, which are correct mathematical constructions.

That is, we can test the various quantum gravity & string hypotheses and any of the tensor metrics! Einstein’s tensor metrics should be correct, but from a propulsion perspective there is something more interesting, Alcubierre tensor metrics. Alcubierre was the first, using General Relativity, to propose the theoretical possibility of warp speed (note, not how to engineer it). Alcubierre’s work is very sophisticated. However, the concept is elegantly simple. That one can wrap a space craft in gravitational-type deformed spacetime to get it to ‘fall’ in the direction of travel.

The concept suggest that both equations (1) and (2) are no longer valid as the relative velocity between the outer edges of the spacetime wrap and an external observer is either at c, the velocity of light or greater – one needs to do the math to get the correct answer. Even at an acceleration of 1g, and assuming that this craft has eventually reached c, equation (1) and (2) are no longer consistent. Therefore, my inference is that Alcubierre metrics allows for zero time dilation within the wrap but not velocities greater than the velocity of light. Therefore, it is also doubtful that Dr. Richard Obousy hypothesis that it is possible to achieve velocities of 1E30c with a quantum string version of Alcubierre warp drive is correct.

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Benjamin T Solomon is the author & principal investigator of the 12-year study into the theoretical & technological feasibility of gravitation modification, titled An Introduction to Gravity Modification, to achieve interstellar travel in our lifetimes. For more information visit iSETI LLC, Interstellar Space Exploration Technology Initiative.

Solomon is inviting all serious participants to his LinkedIn Group Interstellar Travel & Gravity Modification.

Why the name iSETI?

iSETI Podcast 05/31/2008 (Duration 00:03:44)

 

 

When, as a child, I saw Neil Armstrong walk on the Moon in 1969, on black and white television, I understood that Earth was not the only place Man could inhabit.

I marveled at the advanced technology that the US had used to get there, and wondered if I too could do something similar or be involved in such a great technological and exploratory adventure. Knowing that rocket propulsion was big business, I resolved to find some other way to get into space. Thus, several decades ago I started to toy with ideas on gravity modification.

Out of that tinkering, I realized that it was insufficient just to go to the moon. To assure some amount of success, it was necessary to have a goal that was much bigger than traveling a short distance. By short I mean to the Moon. What could be more difficult if not comparatively impossible? It was traveling to the stars in a reasonable amount of time.

Did God design the Universe so that we would always be stuck here on this planet or did He design it so that we could reach its furthest stars and return in a single life time? I believe in a generous God so the latter was the only acceptable design. Still, I wasn’t sure if this was possible, thus the name iSETI, Interstellar Space Exploration Technology Initiative. This was to be a technology initiative.

A technology initiative to reach the stars, if that was possible. The doubts remained because modern physics dictates that this is not possible. As recently as April 25^th of this year, 2008, Michio Kaku said on The Space Show interview that if gravity modification was possible it would probably happen in about 300 years from now. Therefore, this technology initiative had to begin with a physics initiative.

Revamped iSETI website

The iSETI website has been revamped. I’ve set up th blog at https://iseti.wordpress.com/ so that readers and researchers can communicate about what they and I are doing with respect to gravity modification.

I have also set up a Windows Live Messenger interface, so that we can communicate via video conferenceing.

Best,
Ben