Call Of The Cosmic Wild. Relativistic Rockets For The New Millennium. Expanded Edition.

by James Essig (Illustrator)

Overview

This book includes numerous calculations for the many specific examples included within. I have included the many calculated examples to provide the reader with immediate justifications for the numerous concepts described. This was not done to belittle or talk down to the reader, but rather to give the reader a clear sense of the plausibility for the propulsion methods and performance capabilities thereof. Interstellar travel at the many specific highly relativistic velocities contemplated in this book and in some cases, extreme vehicle masses, is still a very controversial subject, but nonetheless, a highly mathematicalized and intelligible subject. My hope and intention is to thus clearly inspire and show the reader the plausibility of the concepts by providing the reader with proper evidence through his or her simple inspection of the formulas and values included in the computations.

In some cases, iterative computational examples are given for a specific concept using multiple re-adjustments one or more variables. The "boiler plate" style repetitions are made for what may at first appear to be the same text repeated multiple times. The reason for such repetitions is to simplify the lexicography and to provide the reader an intuitively simple description of the concepts through easy reading by giving the reader with a sense of familiarity for the nature of the respective concepts.

Thus, the reader will likely find the text intuitive and relatively easy to read. I desire not to turn the reader off by intentionally not providing the most succinct and densely worded prose. Having worked in the field of intellectual property acquisition as co-inventor and joint patent holder of numerous U.S. Patents, I am familiar with how obtuse excessively succinct and informationally dense writing can be especially where long sentences are used to express complex ideas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538019870
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	03/15/2017
Pages:	802
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.59(d)

About the Author

I have been a science author and interstellar propulsion researcher for about 8 years now. My love of interstellar travel had its genesis in my childhood. Through most of my elementary school age years, I was a shy kid but one who was far from the stereotypical reserved nerdy geek. My grade school report cards where generally good but where far from the straight A cards that the academically brilliant students would receive. I had a very personal dream, however, that motivated me to get through the often boring school days. This dream is that for an unbounded future of human interstellar space-flight. My infatuation with manned space exploration began early in grade school, fueled by the Apollo Space Program and lunar landings and the promise of manned missions to distant planets in the not-so-distant future. It seemed as though by the 1980s, we would definitely be sending humans on Martian exploratory missions. My interest in manned space travel waned a bit during the late 1970s through the mid1990s, but picked up again after I had read a book on real world potential interstellar travel methods based mainly on known and well established physics. Before embarking on a new career as a free-lance starship propulsion researcher and science writer, I worked as an inventor. With my brother, John, we co-invented and obtained numerous U.S. patents, several dealing with various forms of resource harnessing apparatus. With such serious but small scale research and development efforts, I had developed a renewed appreciation for the power of the Sun, and by corollary, the tremendous power of the cosmos including the cosmic energy source of nuclear fusion, the power that literally runs the stars. I hold Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics from George Mason University and have completed several graduate level courses in physics and mathematics.