Arcturus by Dawn
The Future of Space Travel

by: Robert L. Carroll

Author's Introduction

I stand in awe of the author of that book who consigns the entire human race so easily to an endless series of plagues and pointless wars. The present treatise is hopefully intended to avoid such a future for humankind.

My anger is in part occasioned by my own futility in trying to explain physics without mathematics. Some of it is due to the fact that so many erroneous principles are accepted as truth at the present time that it will take eternity to straighten things out. How it is possible for an entire scientific community to go so far astray in a few thousand years of recorded history is utterly beyond understanding. Some of my anger is due to my own inability to be able to know anything with any depth of understanding. Human understanding in general is so superficial that is scarcely worthy of the name. The rest of my anger, if any is left over, is reserved for the administrators and supervisors who did all they could to discourage my efforts.

Let it be known that I have nothing but good will and thanks for all of the scientists who opposed me so long and so faithfully. Without their opposition, I would never have carried the work to the degree of perfection that it now has. My greatest debt of gratitude goes to Einstein himself who generated a theory which reacted upon me in the same way that a red flag reacts upon a bull. My determination to prove him wrong in every respect has led me to a long and successful career. My salute to him may be summed up in his sole contribution to the future: E=MC².

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Patching the Patches
• Section 1, Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts
• Section 2, The Baby and the Bath Water
• Section 3, The Law of KISS
Chapter 2 - The Shape of Creation
• Section 1, Geometry
• Section 2, What is Size?
• Section 3, Fundamental Units
Chapter 3 - Space Travel
• Section 1, The Expanding Universe
• Section 2, Children of Light
• Section 3, The Energy of Matter
Chapter 4 - Room Temperature Superconductivity
• Section 1, The Wave Equation
• Section 2, Principles of Superconductivity
• Section 3, The Release of Nuclear Energy
Chapter 5 - The Present Energy Fiasco
• Section 1, The Gentle Art of Leg-Pulling
• Section 2, Gravitational Principles
• Section 3, Fossil Energy
Chapter 6 - The Resonance Absorber
• Section 1, The Nature of Administration
• Section 2, The Human Element of Science
• Section 3, Patent Number 3664143
Chapter 7 - Endings of Beginnings
• Section 1, A Self-Sustaining Reaction
• Section 2, The Carroll Research Institute
• The Bus Driver's Holiday