Andrew Bender

Slipstring Drive: String Theory, Gravity, and ?faster Than Light? Travel Andrew Bender

Written for amateur physicists, Slip String Drive takes you through the basics ofstring and M-theories so that you canembark on a "faster than light" voyage without violating physics. By using gravity waves to completely isolate volumes of spacetime from the rest of the universe, author Andrew L. Bender proposes a method of travel-similar to going through a wormhole-that 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 Slip String Drive, Bender describes how ships using this method of propulsion would appear to those outside of the ship's 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 M-theory, this new theory unifies all forces, and predicts dark matter andenergy. It also theorizes how theacceleration of our universe will changeover time, along with other predictions that could prove modified M-theorycorrect observationally-a feat no other cosmologist has yet achieved. Finally, Bender hypothesizes how the universe will end, and how our descendants could survive that fateful occurrence. "Bender embarks with all the eagerness-if not the ringing clarity-of Brian Greene . . . -A fertile physics funhouse for the highly curious and motivated lay reader. -Kirkus Discoveries "Thoughtful, infectious, and mind-expanding . . . a highly readable book which offers both atheoretical refinement of M-theory and an important practical application with dramaticimplications for the future of intelligent life in the universe. -Theodore C. Nason, Ph. D. Physics