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All Things Bright and Beautiful, All Things Wise and Wonderful

Paul — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:42:04 +0000

To wax lyrical, I do wish to promote the above.

Scientific References

Paul — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:44:34 +0000

LASERS
LASERS SOON CAPABLE OF REACHING SCHWINGER LIMIT
Brilliant Photon and Particle Beams High-Field physics - Dietrich Habs lab
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~webalub/german/show_colloquium.php?number=661

LASERS SOON TO REACH SCHWINGER LIMIT
Extreme Light - Ed Gerstner , Nature, March 1 2007 pg. 17-18

LASERS BRIEFLY PULSED PRODUCE 10 TRILLION WATTS BY CHIRPING- STRETCHING WAVE IN TIME
Extreme Light - Gerard Mourou and Donald Umsdter - Scientific American 2000

HISTORY
EFFECT OF MAGNETISM ON LIGHT
Faraday - Experimental Researches submitted to the Royal Society Nov 6, 1845. effect of magnetic force on light

DISTORTION OF SPACE
The Effect of Rotating Distant Masses in Einstein’s Theory of Gravitation - Hans Thirring - Physicalische Zeitschrift 19:33-39, 1918

QUANTUM TUNNELING
Quantum Theory of the Atomic Nucleus - George Gamow - Zeitschrift Physicalische - 51, 204, 1928

TUNNELING BETWEEN SUPER CONDUCTORS
BD Josephson Reviews of Modern Phys. Vol. 46: 2 April 1974 pg. 251-254

EXISTENCE OF BEC
First Observation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate - MH Anderson, JR Ensher, MR Mattheews, CE Wieman, and EA Cornell, - Science 269, 198 (1995)

VARIA
MACROSCOPIC TUNNELING
Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling of a Fluxon in a Long Josephson Junction - T Kato, M Imada
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9604160

Macroscopic quantum tunneling of two-component Bose-Einstein Condensates - Phys. Rev. A, Vol 64. 053605-1-11

ELECTRON TEAR DROP SHAPE (NOT STRONG EVIDENCE)
Particle Detectors - K. Kleinnecht - Physics Report 84: 85-161 (1982) also in Experimental Techniques in High Energy Nuclear and PArticle Physics 2nd edition ed. Thomas Ferbel, World Scientific; chap 1

VORTEX AND TUNNELING
Vortices and Quantum Tunneling in Current Biased 0-pi-0 Josephson Junctins od d-wave Superconductors - Takeo Kato and Masastoshi Imada
http://yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/abs/cond-mat/9701147

SUPPORT FOR BERRY’s PHASE
Observation of Berry’s Topological Phase by Use of an Optical Fiber
A. Tomita and RY Chia - Amer Phys Coc. 57:8: pgs.937-940, 1986

RELATIONSHIP OF EXCITONS TO PHONONS (Not sure how we would use this)
New Approach to the exciton-phon problem
Oswald and I. Egri Amer Phys Soc 28:6- 1983 3291-3299

Support from Bob Heironimus, 21st Century Radio

Paul — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:28:26 +0000

“This is fascinating stuff to me, friends!”
- Bob Heironimus, radio announcer, 21st Century Radio

Review from Matthew Geiger, Editor, Innovations…

Paul — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:22:38 +0000

“This Way to the Stars” is an unconventional book of great aspirations
that revives the dream of intergalactic space travel. Most
brilliantly, Paul Kirsch directs the reader’s attention from
conventional means of propulsion to consider alternative possibilities
created by modern science. Through this inspirational text designed
for everyone from the casual dreamer to the seasoned researcher, he
presents a design concept for an achievable space probe capable of
instantaneous travel to anywhere in the universe. If the ideas within
this text are validated, the human race will soon experience the next
space age. If not, the journey will certainly advance scientific
thinking as well as lead us onto a new path to the stars.

- Matthew Geiger, Editor and Manager, Innovations and Technologies That Can Change the World, Helium.com

Nice letter from Governor Schwarzenegger

Paul — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:54:26 +0000

Here is a nice form(?) letter of support I received from Governor Schwarzenegger.

People often ask for the math…

Paul — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:53:05 +0000

To see the calculations upon which the book is based see this math pdf. My computer is a bit slow with Acrobat. I hope this works.

Link to supportive associate

Paul — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:53:49 +0000

Here is a link to the web address of a supportive associate of ours, Matthew Geiger

This Way to the Stars

Paul — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:51:03 +0000

The original book was around 400 pages and it was my thought to have very little written on each page so that the reader could flip through the pages rapidly. The problem with that was that it would have brought the retail price of the book up to $50 and that seemed unacceptable for the broad audience I wanted to reach.

Another aspect of my intent is in rocking the edge between art and reality or imagination and engineering. By staying right on the edge, by keeping the delineation a little foggy, I think a certain human energy and will can be attached to the project; a kind of hope mixed with pragmatism.

The astonishing reality is however, that the probe mentioned in the book is not really imagination as may be suggested by the above. One doesn’t come up with ideas for how to build an interstellar probe out of a vacuum. Mike Miller and Larry Maurer tell part of how they came up with their idea in their book Debris.