ZPEnergy.com - Exotic Matter

Dr. Paul J. Werbos writes: It would be really great if we could build interstellar vehicles that really work.

I agree that we should do the best we can to maximize the probability that it becomes real, sooner or later. But I have often wondered: how? And what is the probability, really? What is the path that gets us there?

I also agree that exotic matter -- matter which is gravitationally repulsive -- and backwards-time effects are the most promising routes to possible get there, SO FAR AS WE KNOW -- though what we know right now is ever so little compared to what is really out there.

Truth be told -- I think we are a lot closer to a successful challenge of beliefs about time ... see:

http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.1234

And I predicted exotic matter long before dark energy was "observed"...

http://www.werbos.com/SelfOrganizationInOrigins.pdf

But how to actually produce and confine exotic matter, if it exists and if it is possible?

So far as I know, we are a long ways away from that. There are really basic issues in nuclear physics which are not even being explored, because of ...
well, because a lot of folks seem to have forgotten about the scientific method and what it really requires of us. In my view.

http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2520

So far as I know, there is no easy path here -- but the hard path is certainly worth the effort, because of how much is at stake.

========

But... if we can't even get off the earth, due to near-universal incompetence on earth, one might argue that inner space is a more realistic destination at this moment.

Best of luck to us all,

Paul