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The problem of the speed of light.

The problem of the speed of light.

If we would send the crew to another solar system, that thing needs a very big investment. And if we would make the manned flight to another solar system it would mean the final goodbye for that crew, if we cannot create craft what would travel faster than the speed of light. And this is the problem. We cannot make sure if the system like WARP-craft or wormhole would work properly before we test it.

And if the craft would be a disappointment, there is a possibility, that we cannot get it back, or in the better case, the craft would turn useless version of the giant spacecraft, which can be modified to the space station. But if the craft would travel about 50% of the speed of light, the journey to the Alpha Centauri system would take over 8 years to one way.

The problems with long-term space trips to other solar systems are that we don't know how to handle time. So when we are creating the models, where the spacecraft would reach the speed of the light or goes faster than the light, we must realize that there would be two versions of that very interesting phenomenon.

The realistic version of that thing is the virtual crossing the speed of light. In that case, the spacecraft would create the speed, which is near the speed of light, and then the time would go slower or even stop inside the capsule. Or if we would increase the mass or energy to that craft, the thing would cause the effect, that the time seems to go backward, because its energy would be so huge, that the light cannot escape from the surface.

But the craft is not crossing the speed of light. And the thing is that the journey to the nearest star would take 4,3 years, or in fact, the flight time would take longer, because the craft would be accelerated years, and the breaking would take years. The virtual crossing the speed of light would happen by connecting the particle accelerator to the craft, and that would make that effect possible if the particle accelerator would start near the speed of light. The idea would be that the magnetic accelerator would move particles forward when the craft is traveling near the speed of light.

There is one another possibility to attempt that kind of thing like real crossing the speed of light, but that thing needs the so enormous craft, that is hard to create even in the most optimistic visions. The first stage of the craft would equip with the giant magnetic accelerator, and when this base stage would be accelerated near the speed of light, another stage would send to the forward by using the particle accelerator.

That thing would, in theory, make that incredible thing possible, but the problem is how to stop that vehicle? The second stage would not be very big, and that would make it impossible to use any kind of braking system unless some version of the solar sail would be used in that mission. So that system could be the solar brake.

The WARP-system might have the potential for that kind of system, but the problem is that we cannot know the answers for that thing could the vehicle somehow cross the speed of light before the WARP-craft has been created. And here we are facing things, what is the only possible in the space programs, and the thing is that if the speed of WARP or some other spacecraft would be only 15% of the speed of light, that thing would be a very big disappointment.

But the speed of that spacecraft would be very high, and that means that in that case, when the speed was only small part of the expected or hoped, the craft cannot return very easily. And that means that if the WARP would not work perfectly, we would notice that thing even after a couple of years. The system would make for nothing. It could travel inside the solar system, but the huge system that is meant for interstellar craft would be a little bit too big for interplanetary flight, and those systems would not be suitable for small scale missions.

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