Summary of Technology
Star Trek and Star Wars are real inspirations to a practicing engineer. The technology required to put together the starship Enterprise inspires today's transportation builds. If human-kind is going to build a faster than light speed ship by the year 2030 we will need to catalog the requisite technologies.
The technologies for a starship need a high degree of reliability and must have a design life that stretches centuries. A starship must be testable; that is to say it must be able to diagnose failures within itself and report these failures to the crew of the ship for corrective action. All of the functions of the ship must be known to be working.
Critical functions must not only testable but the testing mechanism must be testable. RiAC equations show that two levels of testing push the instantaneous hazard rate to a suitably low level to ensure safe functioning.
If humankind is to create a Star Trek or Star Wars worthy craft the following must be implemented and I'll leave out weapons (except of course the lightsaber):
1. Warp drive or hyperdrive
2. Impulse drive
4. Structural integrity
5. Artificial gravity
6. Shields
7. The Lightsaber
The list above may all be possible with the right manipulation of the electron field. The lightsaber may require a plasma but will most likely work with the right manipulation of electrons.
All of the technologies will require concepts used in modern engineering physics notably feedback, curl in vector fields, electron fields, the quality factor, Hilbert spaces and electrical resonance.
The starship should have an availability of at least 99.99% during a mission excluding active maintenance time. The reliability of all structural and vital components must be assessed individually and with any redundancies that are built in for safety or availability.
The starship must have safety assessed to be better than ten to the power of negative nine realized hazards per hour.
The technologies for a starship need a high degree of reliability and must have a design life that stretches centuries. A starship must be testable; that is to say it must be able to diagnose failures within itself and report these failures to the crew of the ship for corrective action. All of the functions of the ship must be known to be working.
Critical functions must not only testable but the testing mechanism must be testable. RiAC equations show that two levels of testing push the instantaneous hazard rate to a suitably low level to ensure safe functioning.
If humankind is to create a Star Trek or Star Wars worthy craft the following must be implemented and I'll leave out weapons (except of course the lightsaber):
1. Warp drive or hyperdrive
2. Impulse drive
4. Structural integrity
5. Artificial gravity
6. Shields
7. The Lightsaber
The list above may all be possible with the right manipulation of the electron field. The lightsaber may require a plasma but will most likely work with the right manipulation of electrons.
All of the technologies will require concepts used in modern engineering physics notably feedback, curl in vector fields, electron fields, the quality factor, Hilbert spaces and electrical resonance.
The starship should have an availability of at least 99.99% during a mission excluding active maintenance time. The reliability of all structural and vital components must be assessed individually and with any redundancies that are built in for safety or availability.
The starship must have safety assessed to be better than ten to the power of negative nine realized hazards per hour.
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