" Jump Gate " to Deep Space Discovered

[btubill]

New, Super Fast Earth to Mars Trajectory Follows a Relativistic Fold in Space<br />by<br />WH Clark<br /><br />The complete paper is at http://www.wbabin.net/clark/clark5.htm<br /><br />Abstract<br /><br />The Earth to Mars trajectory is so extremely nonlinear that the only way to find ANY solution is using genetic algorithms - i.e. a completely random search method. This paper describes a direct solution method that not only finds a solution in every single iteration, but an optimal solution; and it does so in a model with 24 unknowns. This extreme and unusual result implies that the algorithm has not only found a fundamental solution, but a powerful new "jump gate" into deep space ~ literally, a Relativistic fold in space. The formal name of the trajectory is a "Gravity Assisted Bi-Elliptic Transfer" orbit; or "GRABET" orbit for short.<br /><br />The result of this fairly straightforward algorithm spawned an exhaustive study of the Solar System, represented in fifty informal papers available at http://lulu.com/whclarkii/ which are collectively my Ph.D dissertation at the University of Texas at Austin. The series of papers pose a fascinating and extremely intricate explanation for this super fast Mars trajectory ~ and the algorithm that found it.<br /><br />Two distinct gravitational regimes are shown to exist, for the inner and outer planets respectively. The Earth to Mars orbit follows a shock wave generated at their intersection, i.e. a third gravitational regime that is faster and more powerful than its constituents. The inner and outer planet regimes, moreover, are shown to be two successive fractal levels - and the papers explore a whole series of additional fractal levels from subatomic and solid state physics all the way up to string theory and cosmology. They all have something in common to this powerful Mars algorithm and the "free return" figure-

 

[vogon13]

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[najab]

It is not woo-woo as the thread title might suggest.

 

[vogon13]

_____________________________________________________________<br /><br />The Earth to Mars orbit follows a shock wave generated at their intersection.<br />_____________________________________________________________<br /><br /><br />L Ron Hubbard writes better than that.<br /><br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/tongue.gif" /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[CalliArcale]

Actually, this sounds a lot like Martin Lo's "interplanetary superhighway" concept. Martin Lo was the mathematician hired as the trajectory designer for Genesis, which really did have a revolutionary trajectory design. (The whole thing was virtually automated by nothing more than the laws of physics. Engine burns were only required to fine-tune the aim for the spacecraft's return; it actually left L1 automatically!)<br /><br />The idea is that you can exploit Lagrange (also called libration) points to pass from one body's gravitational influence to another's. It's slow, but surprisingly cheap in terms of energy expenditure. Lo called it a "superhighway" to the planets. You could call it a jump gate too, I suppose, although that rather falsely suggests that it's faster. (It's not fast. But it's cheap, which makes more ambitious missions practical.) <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[henryhallam]

<font color="yellow"><br />It is not woo-woo as the thread title might suggest.<br /></font><br /><br />While I don't have the maths or astrodynamics background to properly judge the paper, it is worth pointing out that the "journal" at http://www.wbabin.net/ is not peer-reviewed in any way (anybody can submit a paper). And WH Clark has written a wide variety of papers at http://www.lulu.com/whclarkii/ including some which purport to refute relativity.<br /><br />I am absolutely not in any position to say whether this is "woo-woo" or not, so I don't make any such claim. But do take it with a pinch of salt.

 

[spacester]

I took a look at the paper, what he's talking about is certainly plausible.<br /><br />It's a clever strategy but the "jump-gate" reference was a very bad idea, it sullied an otherwise sound presentation.<br /><br />What he's doing is noticing that in the real Solar System Mars' orbit is quite eccentric. There's actually no such thing as a true Hohmann transfer between elliptical orbits - it's defined for circular orbits. The idea behind Hohmann is to have your departure and arrival vectors perfectly in line with the planet's velocity vector, but that can only actually happen on Mars' ellipse at the periapse or apoapse. You never get lucky enough to burn at an apse without going faster than Hohman.<br /><br />What he's doing is starting with the Hohmann-approximate trajectory then integrating from the middle of that arc in both directions, accounting for constant thrust and optimizing for minimum dV. Actually, it makes sense to me. I didn't see any examples or other exposition of results, though. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[vogon13]

Is btubills' item a rare (unique) post from an RCH type, in RCH prose, endorsing real sci ?<br /><br />The home office ain't gonna be happy with him.<br /><br />I'm still trying to figure out the shock wave thing.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/tongue.gif" /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>