{"id":10546,"date":"2014-04-09T10:12:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T17:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10546"},"modified":"2014-04-18T15:05:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T22:05:59","slug":"ground-zero-of-interstellar-propulsion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/ground-zero-of-interstellar-propulsion","title":{"rendered":"Ground Zero of Interstellar Propulsion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Private Space exploration is gaining a lot of attention in the media today. It is expected to be the next big thing after social media, technology, and probably bio fuels . Can we take this further? With DARPA sponsoring the formation of the 100 Year Starship Study (100YSS)<\/a> in 2011, can we do interstellar propulsion in our life times?<\/p>\n

The Xodus One Foundation<\/a> thinks this is feasible. To that end the Foundation has started the KickStarter project Ground Zero of Interstellar Propulsion<\/a> to fund and accelerate this research. This project ends Fri, May 9 2014 7:39 AM MDT.<\/p>\n

The community of interstellar propulsion researchers can be categorized into three groups, those who believe it cannot be done (Nay Sayers Group \u2013 NSG), those who believe that it requires some advanced form of conventional rockets (Advanced Rocket Group \u2013 ARG), and those who believe that it needs new physics (New Physics Group \u2013 NPG).<\/p>\n

The Foundation belongs to the third group, the New Physics Group. The discovery in 2007 of the new massless formula for gravitational acceleration g=\u03c4c^2 , where \u03c4 is the change in time dilation over a specific height divided by that height, led to the inference that there is a new physics for interstellar propulsion that is waiting to be discovered.<\/p>\n

What would this physics look like if nothing can travel faster than light? Founder & Chairman, Benjamin T Solomon, of the Xodus One Foundation<\/a> believes that the answer lies in our understanding of photon probability. Can we discover enough physics to figure out how to control photon probability?<\/p>\n

To facilitate this discovery one can participate in the Ground Zero of Interstellar Propulsion<\/a>. If Solomon is right \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Private Space exploration is gaining a lot of attention in the media today. It is expected to be the next big thing after social media, technology, and probably bio fuels . Can we take this further? With DARPA sponsoring the formation of the 100 Year Starship Study (100YSS) in 2011, can we do interstellar propulsion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1522,48,225,219,224,8,1514],"tags":[909,910,780,814,1542,645,504,1543,861,1544],"class_list":["post-10546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense","category-innovation","category-particle-physics","category-philosophy","category-physics","category-science","category-space","category-space-travel","tag-100-year-starship-study","tag-100yss","tag-darpa","tag-gc2","tag-ground-zero-of-interstellar-propulsion","tag-interstellar-propulsion","tag-interstellar-travel","tag-kickstarter","tag-massless-formula-for-gravitational-acceleration","tag-xodus-one-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}