Sailing Into Cosmic Destinations: The Big Book. Notes On The Mechanics And Thermodynamics Of Novel Relativistic Sail Space Craft. Volume 3.

This book is the third volume of a continuing series.


Much of the old text from Volume 1 has been omitted from Volumes 2 and 3 so as not to bore the reader with excess verbage. So, the reader may want to purchase Volume 1 to appreciate the full scope of the proposed methods so far considered for this plausible technology.


The wobbling motion of the sail and other active spacecraft elements is considered as yet another degree of freedom for which to enhance the gamma factors of the reactive surface elements with respect to the background.

Volume 3 includes a mathematical formulation for spacecraft reactive surfaces gamma factors with respect to the background where several degrees of motion are modeled.

New to this series is a single axis wobbling motion enabled by ad hoc yet to be developed super-materials. The formulaic presentation of the wobbling motion assumes a resulting significant increase in spacecraft surface elements gamma factors with respect to the background.

A brief but important discussion is included on plausible ways to reduce gravitational radiation losses otherwise resulting from relativistic oscillatory motions in the spacecraft translational motion reference frame.