Starships

Warp Speed - Element 115

By: Annie Anston

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

Based on the Hubble Space Telescope findings, a German super-computer estimated there are five hundred billion galaxies in the universe. Our own Milky Way has 100 billion stars. To think that the Earth is the only planet to have life is akin to thinking it is flat and that the sun orbits around it. Sightings of UFOs have been numerous. In 1952, some were observed over the White House. Details are readily available on the internet. Discreetly ask a seasoned airplane pilot if he has seen any UFOs. How do they get here? With the closest star four light-years away, it's not by any of our conventional methods. Perhaps mankind thinks too much in a linear fashion. Simply increasing the speed of forward propulsion is not the answer. Could something such as surfing a gravitational wave work? They travel at the speed of light. An Einstein–Rosen bridge could be the answer. Perhaps advanced civilizations have constructed and stabilized a highway system of wormholes for interstellar travel. What would happen if each end of it were in a different density of gravity? Would it serve as a time machine? Time would pass at different speeds at each end, so one go could forward or backward in time. What if the seven-mile high asteroid that hit Earth at twelve miles per second sixty-six million years ago had hit a thousand years earlier? How much more advanced would our science be? What could civilizations that have been around a million years longer than we have be capable of? All intriguing things to ponder. Time passes at different rates of speed at different velocities and in different densities of gravity. This is a proven fact. That's what Einstein's Theories of General and Special Relativity are all about. If one can accelerate the human body's cellular structure at the atomic level, perhaps by using electromagnetism, there could be a time variance adequate for allowing one to walk through a wall. They are not in the same place at the same time, as their times are out of phase. Einstein was involved with the Philadelphia Experiment, which was covered up the same as Roswell, but presumably dealt with this topic as sailors were rumored to have become embedded in their ship's metal hull. A warp drive to achieve faster-than-light travel may not be as unrealistic as once thought. You've seen the Navy's videos on TV. An Alcubierre warp drive would involve a football-shape spacecraft attached to a large ring encircling it. This ring, potentially made of exotic matter, would cause space-time to warp around the starship, creating a region of contracted space in front of it and expanded space behind. Everything within space is restricted by the speed of light, but the fabric of space is not limited by the speed of light. The warp drive could be powered by a mass about the size of a spacecraft like the Voyager probe. Element 115 has been added to the Periodic Table and if stabilized could bring all stars within mankind's reach. Meet Catherine 'Cat' Carrington. Join her as she finishes college, enters the military, gets her first command, participates in an experimental project, gets renamed Starbabe, and has First Contact. Along the way she realizes she is bisexual and toys mischievously with her girlfriend as they travel together along their roads of discovery, both about themselves and about the aliens. Sexual content intended for the mature reader.