Tuesday, March 20, 2007
A Drink from Neptune's Sea
Thank you for joining me on this trip to Rigel Kantaurus. Before we leave the Solar System we must refuel, which means She will take a big drink from the methane-hydrogen sea of Neptune. This will give Her energy to fuel the blue star at Her heart. She needs to refuel every 75 light years, so we will have no trouble reaching the multi-star system. Between star systems She breathes space to catalyze her fuel and feed the blue star.
Your colleagues are following us with powerful telescopes and radar. As we accelerate out of the Solar System they will see our light doppler shift toward the red end of the spectrum. By the time we exit the Kuiper Belt the energy in the light they detect will be so low, they will lose us. Ha! As if we ceased to exist.
Your colleagues are following us with powerful telescopes and radar. As we accelerate out of the Solar System they will see our light doppler shift toward the red end of the spectrum. By the time we exit the Kuiper Belt the energy in the light they detect will be so low, they will lose us. Ha! As if we ceased to exist.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
She teaches us
Neela-Megha told me her race of interstellar flyers manages resources, living partners, and behavior so that family and tribe have the best chance to live forever. No religion or philosophy that accepts or teaches the end the end of the family or tribe escapes group logical analysis until its adherents understand that they and the entire biosphere carry the Spirit and Intelligence, not some external agency of God.
Friday, March 16, 2007
Leaving Earth Orbit
Thank you for joining me and the other Purpurisians on the broad back of the Cosmic Swan -- our great living ship. Her name is Neela-Megha. You will find your stay here not so different from life on Earth. She has a warm blue star in her heart. Clouds, rain, rivers, hills, valleys, villages, mothers, fathers, children, and a wide variety of plants and animals also live here.
When close to a star such as Sol, launching out of orbit is very easy. She needs only to open her wings to the stellar wind. She effortlessly spirals away from your the star. When the star is distant, her wings reach out and swim.
Those who watch us with telescopes from Earth see our light shifting toward the red end of the spectrum as successive waves take a little longer to make the trip. But here on her back everything is normal and comfortable. As we approach the speed of light (C) relative to Earth, we are hard to follow. We can only be seen in the deep infrared part of the spectrum. We are losing electro-magnetic communication, but not leaving your universe.
We are the same as we were before. Nothing slows us. There is no force that holds us below C. From our point of view Sol and other stars fade from Red to invisible, but the light from other stars in our velocity space appear and change from ultra violet to blue. The skies around our Cosmic Swan are filled with rich multicolored jewels. Snaking and tumbling around and through those jewels are filaments of dust and and opalescent mist that change color as we accelerate toward Rigel Kantaurus.
When close to a star such as Sol, launching out of orbit is very easy. She needs only to open her wings to the stellar wind. She effortlessly spirals away from your the star. When the star is distant, her wings reach out and swim.
Those who watch us with telescopes from Earth see our light shifting toward the red end of the spectrum as successive waves take a little longer to make the trip. But here on her back everything is normal and comfortable. As we approach the speed of light (C) relative to Earth, we are hard to follow. We can only be seen in the deep infrared part of the spectrum. We are losing electro-magnetic communication, but not leaving your universe.
We are the same as we were before. Nothing slows us. There is no force that holds us below C. From our point of view Sol and other stars fade from Red to invisible, but the light from other stars in our velocity space appear and change from ultra violet to blue. The skies around our Cosmic Swan are filled with rich multicolored jewels. Snaking and tumbling around and through those jewels are filaments of dust and and opalescent mist that change color as we accelerate toward Rigel Kantaurus.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
A Swing by Earth on the Cosmic Swan
Your astrophysics lack one bit of information: you have not lived the experience of flying in the galaxy. Your theories are based, naturally, on what you see from your observatories, labs, and your probes thru the Solar System.
You must fly with me to Rigel Kantaurus. It's only 4.4 light years from Earth. You will see that nothing prevents my Cosmic Swan to fly there in 7 days. She breathes in space and flies on wings so thin we can see stars through them. Nothing prevents her from accelerating to hundreds of times light speed, but of course you cannot know that because you cannot see us when we travel so fast.
I know what your equations say: they say what you see. But of course, you cannot see anything that escapes its light cone.
The result is that I do not exist in your universe. But you exist in mine.
You must fly with me to Rigel Kantaurus. It's only 4.4 light years from Earth. You will see that nothing prevents my Cosmic Swan to fly there in 7 days. She breathes in space and flies on wings so thin we can see stars through them. Nothing prevents her from accelerating to hundreds of times light speed, but of course you cannot know that because you cannot see us when we travel so fast.
I know what your equations say: they say what you see. But of course, you cannot see anything that escapes its light cone.
The result is that I do not exist in your universe. But you exist in mine.
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