Slipstring Drive: String Theory, Gravity, and "Faster Than Light" Travel

by Andrew Bender

Written for amateur physicists, SlipString Drive takes you through the basics of string and M-theories so that you can embark on a faster than light voyage without violating physics. By using gravity waves to completely isolate volumes of space-time from the rest of the universe, author Andrew L. Bender proposes a method of travelsimilar to going through a wormholethat could be possible within fifty years. He also details a unique engine design for producing the gravity waves necessary to travel in such a manner.In SlipString Drive, Bender describes how ships using this method of propulsion would appear to those outside of the ships partially gravitationally isolated region of space while maneuvering at slow speeds. Bender also discusses novel uses for such a vessel, such as saving humanity from comets to supernovae.Bender also offers a Membrane Theory of Gravity. A modification of the M-theory, this new theory unifies all forces, and predicts dark matter and energy. It also theorizes how the acceleration of our universe will change over time, along with other predictions that could prove modified M-theory correct observationallya feat no other cosmologist has yet achieved. Finally, Bender hypothesizes how the universe will end, and how your descendants could survive until that fateful occurrence.

154 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 15, 2006

About the author

Andrew Bender is an award-winning travel and food writer known for his Seat 1A travel site on Forbes and contributions to publications including the Los Angeles Times and Lonely Planet. Writing since the late 1990s, he has authored over three dozen Lonely Planet guidebooks and won the Eureka! Travel Writing Award for his coverage of California’s deserts. With an MBA from Wharton and a Master’s in East Asian Studies, Andrew is also a cross-cultural consultant and tour leader for Japan. He speaks fluent Japanese and French, has lived in Japan, France, and the Netherlands, and now resides near Los Angeles, blending travel expertise with cultural insight.