Travel to Proxima Centauri at Warp Speed Possible? From the Atlantis Rising Research Group News Blog

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In the Atlantis Rising Research Report #11, we informed you of newly discovered radio telescope evidence that appeared be emanating from Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our solar system, about four and a quarter light years away. Whether that is indeed the source of the mystery signals has yet to be determined, but even if they really are from Proxima Centauri, that does not mean we will ever live to meet the originators. That would require travel at speeds approaching the speed of light, a virtual impossibility. Or is it?

Researchers from the University of Göttingen in Germany say that travel at speeds approaching the speed of light is theoretically possible after all, and ‘warp speed’ may be more than just a Star Trek fantasy. The new theory relies on the properties of a mathematical wave phenomenon called ‘Solitons.’

The research is published in a March issue of the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity. Dr. Erik Lentz, the author, studied previous attempts to solve the ‘warp speed’ problem and noticed that no one had looked at ‘solitons,’ a kind of wave packet that can retain its form and viability while moving at a constant velocity. The phenomenon was first discovered in 1834 by John Scott Russell. Lentz realized that the soliton properties could provide the warp speed solution, and, moreover, one within reach of current technology. (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...)

If he is right, travel to Proxima Centauri, could be accomplished in decades or millennia, within the lifetime of a single theoretical space traveler, unlike today’s rocket technology which, for a one-way journey, would require 50,000 years. Solitons, moreover, could be configured so that time inside the ‘warp speed’ bubble matches the time outside, avoiding the so-called ‘twin paradox’ where one twin traveling near the speed of light would age much more slowly than his twin on Earth. Indeed, the new equations show that when reunited, both twins would still be the same age as their sibling.