Future Hi: Hyperspace Ship?

January 15, 2006

Hyperspace Ship?

I wouldn't have taken this seriously, but I read it over at Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends:

According to the Heim quantum theory (HQT) developed in the 1950s, it should be possible to build an 'hyperspace' engine allowing a spacecraft to reach Mars in 3 hours. It would also allow us to travel to stars more that 10 light years away in 80 days by slipping into a different dimension. But is interstellar space travel a dream or a future reality? It all depends if this controversial theory about the fabric of our universe is correct or not. So far, it seems that a majority of physicists thinks that this theory is either incomplete or almost understandable. Nevertheless, some scientists working for the U.S. Department of Energy think that such an 'hyperspace' engine could be tested within five years.
An extraordinary "hyperspace" engine that could make interstellar space travel a reality by flying into other dimensions is being investigated by the United States government.

The hypothetical device, which has been outlined in principle but is based on a controversial theory about the fabric of the universe, could potentially allow a spacecraft to travel to Mars in three hours and journey to a star 11 light years away in just 80 days, according to a report in today's New Scientist magazine.

The theoretical engine works by creating an intense magnetic field that, according to ideas first developed by the late scientist Burkhard Heim in the 1950s, would produce a gravitational field and result in thrust for a spacecraft.
Also, if a large enough magnetic field was created, the craft would slip into a different dimension, where the speed of light is faster, allowing incredible speeds to be reached. Switching off the magnetic field would result in the engine reappearing in our current dimension.

The US air force has expressed an interest in the idea and scientists working for the American Department of Energy -- which has a device known as the Z Machine that could generate the kind of magnetic fields required to drive the engine -- say they may carry out a test if the theory withstands further scrutiny.

Professor Jochem Hauser, one of the scientists who put forward the idea, told The Scotsman that if everything went well a working engine could be tested in about five years.

However, Prof. Hauser, a physicist at the Applied Sciences University in Salzgitter, Germany, and a former chief of aerodynamics at the European Space Agency, cautioned that any prototype would be based on a highly controversial theory that would require a significant change in the current understanding of the laws of physics.

"It would be amazing. I have been working on propulsion systems for quite a while and it would be the most amazing thing. The benefits would be almost unlimited," he said.

"But this thing is not around the corner. We first have to prove the basic science is correct and there are quite a few physicists who have a different opinion. It's our job to prove we are right and we are working on that."

He said the engine would enable spaceships to travel to different solar systems. "If the theory is correct then this is not science fiction, it is science fact," Prof. Hauser said.

"NASA have contacted me and next week I'm going to see someone from the [U.S.] air force to talk about it further, but it is at a very early stage. I think the best-case scenario would be within the next five years [to build a test device] if the technology works."

The U.S. authorities' attention was attracted after Prof. Hauser and an Austrian colleague, Walter Droscher, wrote a paper called "Guidelines for a space propulsion device based on Heim's quantum theory."

Posted by paul at January 15, 2006 02:56 AM

Comments

it's great to see you posting this paul. i very nearly mentioned it here after reading about the mentioned paper. i also did a great deal of research on the Heim theory and one of the reasons it is so contentious is that Heim never published his theory for peer review. he closely guarded the theory and so kept it away from the mainstream.

the theory is incredibly reliable at predicting the masses of particles something which no other physics theory has been able to do. so it is very promising.

although i'm excited about the possibilities of a hyperdrive, it's kind of disapointing that it's the US military looking into developing it. still once the cat is out of the bag, space becomes the ultimate frontier.

Posted by: michael at January 15, 2006 06:33 AM

Oddly enough, UFO contactees have been describing such vessels and their mode of travel for decades ... Are we catching up to our 'space brothers,' or just finally catching up to the promise of our own talents ? ;)

Posted by: Upwinger at January 15, 2006 06:36 AM

Hi, i got to your place,, by hazard...
i was reading Bruce Eisner blog and he was talking about Dr. Susan Blackmore and her theories regarding robot developing consciousness and so on...a theory by the scientist .....
i heard your way of criticizing her and her vi soon of future...
didn't like so much...till the point where you were saying that she said that listening to music is a waste of time!!!
gosh, that sounded to me, as one of the most cruel/stupid/narrow minded any one can say, and all of the sudden, i was thinking to my self..maybe his got a point in criticizing her vision of the future..
so i came to visit your place
and to my good astonishment i found this remarkable post about Hyperspace Ship...and slipping into a different dimension...wowww
i vote for that!!!! :)

Posted by: moon at January 15, 2006 12:40 PM

I had heard of the Heim theory--in passing--several years ago, but had forgotten about (the allusion at the time was a comparison of it with Bohm's stuff...). But THIS--certainly!--seems promising!!. A full-fledged theory of hyperspace--i.e., a *consensus* theory [or at least proto-consensus proto-theory] has yet to be fully articulated and consolidated/integrated they way the many-worlds or relative-state meta-theory of quantum-physics is now established in (quantum-)cosmology. But such a consensus-consolidation is sure to come soon, thanks not only to Heim's theory, but, of course, to Saul-Paul Sirag's "Hyperspatial Crystallography", and the work of a few others, such as Tom Bearden. So it is now well-on-the-way to becoming the convention--the standard meta-model, as it were--that we in fact inhabit not only a multiverse, in the sense of the many-worlds model, but also an *n*-dimensional multiverse as well. The potential *technological* implications are important. This is important in terms of spreading the noosphere out at *de facto* superluminal speeds, not by "excieeding" light-speed (in terms of standard Einsteinian/Minkowskian spacetime), but by **circumventing** the light-speed "barrier" via hyperspatial engineering...And, as I've mentioned be, full-fledged hyperspatial engineering implies "god-like" (or Q-like or Doud-like or Metron-like or Organian-like) powers/abilities. We are essentially technological beings, and our technological trajectory is now surging super-exponentially toward the (almost) unimaginable.

If hyperspatial star-drives are not monopolized by Der Stat, then the entire Multiverse with all its *n* dimensions becomes a vast (indeed, more-or-less infinite) frontier...Sans-Ceiling hypothesis indeed...

Thanks, Paul, for this post & reference...(wink)

Posted by: MCP2012 at January 15, 2006 04:47 PM

So according to this idea about deeper 'regions' of existance compared to that which we experiance, we crank the power of an electromagnetic field to completely bypass the speed of light?

I am not sure I understand why electromagnetic strength would allow us access to to other dimsensions, im not sure why this means the speed of light would not also alter with respect to ourselves.

Electromagnitism seems to be a force dependant upon charateristics of objects. If we transcend into new dimensions, why is electromagnetism still relevant?

I would be keen for links to further information on this subject.

Posted by: eventhorizen at January 16, 2006 06:47 PM