Using RF to achieve speeds that are unbelievable to travel to the stars.
Arnold "AJ" Banks, Ph.D.
Principal RF Engineering Fellow . DOD Secret Clearance
Our current rocket propulsion systems use gas. As of today, we don't have any rocket propulsion that can take us to the stars. There are apx 150,000 stars hundreds of thousands of miles away that can potentially support life. So how can we travel to these stars. Not by using chemical propulsion travel at 7 or 8 miles a second. If we did we would have to spend over 100 thousand years in a spacecraft. Or, perhaps travel to the stars via exotic physics using wormholes, but this is only theoretical and for one I would not want to be taken through a wormhole. But on the other hand using rockets using plasma propulsion is possible. Plasma is a 4th stage of matter. You start with a solid if you heat that up it then turns into a liquid and if heat that up it evaporates into gas. If heat the gas “super heat” it the gas turns into plasma. This plasma is so hot that the electrons are stripped away. This plasma can reach temperatures of 80 million degrees (f) with is about 25000 x hotter than the exhaust from a chemical rocket. Once you have this plasma tubes are built which incorporates electromagnetic fields which will accelerate the plasma through it. This plasma is expelled from the rocket at 100km’s per second instead of 4 or 5 km per second of a chemical rocket speeding up the rocket thousands of times faster. Not to be confused with the Orion propulsion system which can reach fractions of the speed of light.