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June 27, 1992
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FROM THE BOOK: IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBILITIES (1971)
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PAGES: 122 - 125
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WITH THE FLYING TORCH TO THE STARS
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This question was answered by Professor Stanioyukovitch of Moscow
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in the following way: man kind will conquer the stars! This
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scientist and his collaborators in his research institute have
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formulated plans for a space satellite powered by anti-matter, and
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have begun the research work necessary for its constriction. They
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have christened their spaceship The Flying Torch.
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In such spaceships, which travel almost at the speed of light,
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mankind could explore the entire universe, or at least all the
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heavenly bodies in our galaxy and perhaps other galaxies. The Flying
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Torch is based on the following principle: the greater the velocity
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of the particles emitted from the engine, the faster the
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acceleration.
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Professor Stanioyukovitch has postulated that if a spaceship could
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be constructed that emitted light instead of burning gases, that is
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to say a sort of flying torch, it could attain speeds which thanks
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to the contraction of time resulting from the theory of relativity
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would permit mankind to travel even to the most distant heavenly
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bodies.
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Early on, however, a significant impediment manifested itself. A
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mirror never reflects light or other electromagnetic rays one
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hundred per cent. A tiny portion of the energy is absorbed by the
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mirror. And through the accumulation of billions and billions of
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calories even such a tiny portion would be enough to cause a mirror
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to melt.
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Stanioyukovitch and his collaborators have solved this problem.
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They have demonstrated that there is one instance in which the
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radiation is REFLECTED ONE HUNDRED PER CENT for all practical
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purposes, the reflector absorbing less than one-billionth of the
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radiation. That happens when the waves are one-tenth of a
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millimeter, the borderline between radio and infrared rays, and when
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the reflector consists of a thick block of polished copper.
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Readings of extreme precision have shown that a bundle of rays of
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the approriate wavelength and of an intensity five million times
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that of the sun can be reflected VIRTUALLY IN TOTALITY by such a
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copper mirror.
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Vangard Note...
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Remember the attack by the Greeks using the sun to burn up
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invading ships in the harbor? Perhaps they used COPPER MIRRORS
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to reflect the majority of the suns rays...so everything old is
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new again...
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The second obstacle in the way of The Flying Torch is the problem
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of converting the energy released by the destruction of matter by
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anti-matter into rays with a wavelength of one-tenth of a
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millimeter. Stanioyukovitch and his team seem, however to have
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solved this problem too. I do not believe that some kind of
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expedient optimism is at work here.
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The third obstacle is cosmic radiation. A spaceship traveling at
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close to the speed of light will be bombarded with significantly
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more cosmic rays and particles than a spaceship traveling at eight
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or ten miles per second, as will be easily appreciated. Since the
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force of cosmic radiation remains more or less constant throughout
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the universe, a space ship traveling at high velocity will be struck
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by more rays than a spaceship traveling more slowly over the same
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span of time. The radiation dose would very rapidly be fatal for the
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occupants of the spaceship. Some kind of equipment is therefore
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necessary that protects the occupants against the danger from
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outside. The answer is an artificially generated magnetic protective
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wall.
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The Flying Torch would of course have to be constructed in space
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and fired in such a way that its beams never reach the earth's
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surface; otherwise large areas of the earth's surface would be
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burned or would even melt. In Professor Agrest's opinion tektites
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were caused by the reactors of such "flying torches" that visited
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the earth in the distant past or were dispatched into the cosmos by
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very early cultures who had attained an unmanageably lofty level of
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evolution. A relatively simple formula can be used to calculate the
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length of the space journey in the time dimension of the occupants
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of these flying torches.
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Applying the formula to a spaceship that travels half its journey
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with an acceleration corresponding to the pull of the earth's
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gravity and the other half braking to the same acceleration rate
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right up to the moment of arrival, the results are fantastic. The
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occupants of such a flying torch would notice nothing unusual.
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Gravity in the spaceship would be the same as on earth. Time would
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seem to be passing normally and smoothly. Yet within a few years
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they would have reached the most distant stars. After 21 years
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(measured in the time of which they are conscious) they would be in
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the innermost center of our Milky Way, 75,000 light-years from
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earth.
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In 28 years they would be at the constellation of Andromeda, the
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galaxy nearest to us; its distance is 2,250,000 light-years.
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Please note that we are not talking here of science fiction. The
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Page 2
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formula under discussion has been verified experimentally in the
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laboratory. Using this formula everyone able to handle logarithmic
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tables can check our calculations. Mistakes are hardly possible, and
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the results obtained on this subject agree. It is therefore
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important to reflect on the importance of this development for
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mankind.
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The scientists who traveled to the constellation of Andromeda
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would be returned to earth in 56 years; added to the figure should
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be the years of their stay on whatever planets they investigated.
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Let us assume that they take 65 years-but that is 65 years measured
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in their time dimension.
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Back on earth 4,500,000 years have gone by in the meantime.
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Traveling at a velocity close to the speed of light is a conquest
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not only of space but also time. Not only the universe but also the
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future becomes accessible to man. Only science-fiction authors have
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so far thought of the consequence. But it is now high time that
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scientists too reflected on the consequences of such an undertaking.
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Once the travelers are in the future, a return to the past
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becomes impossible. We are in the real world, not the world of
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fiction. Wells's time-machine is not realizable and will never be
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realized. But even the possibility of exploring the universe and
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returning to earth centuries, thousands of years, or even millions
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of years later is sufficiently staggering.
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If, as many believe, history is cyclical, if cultures decline and
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are reborn, the flying torch could contribute to the conservation of
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continuity, provide blood transfusions to a declining culture from
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the bank of a highly evolved science from their past, and also give
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to it the benefit of all the knowledge collected by the occupants
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of the spaceship on the planets of other solar systems.
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Such a colonization not only of space but also time would be
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something completely new in the history of mankind. There has been
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much talk of working for posterity, of preparing a glorious future,
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of working for the men of the future. The flying torch, the
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spaceship fueled by anti-matter, would provide us with real,
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physical possibility of communicating with posterity.
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The men of the future will probably undertake journeys into space
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not only to explore the galaxies but also to communicate to future
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cultures what they were able to accomplish. The reason alone would
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make discovery of anti-matter as significant as the discovery of
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fire long ago.
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