Stellar Accelerator Starship Propulsion. Volume 9.: B&w Economy Edition.

Imagine the most luminous red giant stars. Such stars have luminosities on the order of a million times that of the Sun. This is the equivalent of converting 4 trillion tons of matter into energy per second. This is enough power if converted efficiently into ship based kinetic energy to accelerate a Nimitz Class nuclear powered aircraft carrier to a gamma factor of 40 million every second. Perhaps ETI on planets in a habitable zone around such red giants could develop some sort of: electro-magneto-hydrodynamic-plasma drive, an electro-hydrodynamic-plasma drive, a magneto-hydrodynamic-plasma drive, an ion rocket, electron rocket, and/or a photon rocket based propulsion system. The craft could travel around the coronosphere of the red giant, while using the stellar atmospheric and magnetospheric plasma as a reaction mass where thrust vectoring would keep the space craft "glued" to the star. The relative energy of the plasma, starlight, and stellar magnetic fields would increase with respect to the craft as it closed in on C. This would permit a more vigorous interaction between the craft and the stellar plasma thus allowing the craft to draw more energy from the plasma while providing the craft with more thrust in order to keep the craft glued to its orbital motion around the star. The process would continue until the craft approached C very closely. Eventually, the craft would exit the star by shutting down its thrust vectoring system allowing the craft to leave the stellar system. The craft might continually orbit the star with increasing gamma factors thereby acting as a special relativistic gamma factor time machine for forward time travel. If the value of centripetal acceleration increased to a great enough extent, then perhaps very significant general relativistic time dilation could also result. In this black and white economy edition which is the 8th book in this series, you will be presented with stellar powered, revolving spacecraft that utilize both special relativisitic and general relativistic propulsion modes to achieve inertial space travel. at almost the speed of light.