The Wild Blue Yonder Page #2

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And it's got potentional energy with respect to Earth and

potentional energy with respect to the Sun.

The Jacobi constant is equal to

one half the rotating velocity squared,

and I believe by convention it's all minused

so we get a negative sign on a kinetic energy,

and we have the gravitational constant of

the Sun divided by our distance from the Sun

and the gravitational constant of

the Earth divided by our distance from the Earth.

Whenever we come by the Earth, no matter which

direction we come in or which direction we fly by

we are going to end up with exactly the same velocity.

And the key then is to use other planets...

That's the wrong symbol.

That would be Mars

and it's in wrong place so we will

use Venus.... use other planets to

change what the Jacobi

constant is to a new value.

It's playing games with the Jacobi constant and

that's where the tour starts to get interesting.

On board, however, the shifted trajectory was

accepted as just an extension of their flight-plan.

The life carried on.

Day in, day out. Draggery set in.

As you get further and further away

you don't have a sun

you don't have a sunrise anymore

there's nothing you can look at and see

other than points of light.

There's no sense of being

close to anything.

So you are truly an island.

You begin to accept

the different life.

Frankly speaking, my hunch is they

believed it wouldn't be that far.

Because if you could go to sleep, wake up on

a sleeper train pulling into your destination the next morning.

I could've told them.

I know all about it.

We travelled all the way from

the outer reaches of the

Andromeda Galaxy.

Do you have any clue of how far that is?

No you don't.

Let's get this clear from the start.

The closest star to this planet,

or should I say speck of dust,

is only 4.5 light years from here.

And may I say that Alpha Centauri is

a couple of million degrees hot

which, i don't want to exaggerate, could be unpleasant.

Now, how fast is the speed of light?

Using conventional fuel,

l mean rocket fuel

to accelerate to 30% of

the speed of light wouldn't take

all the fuel tanks on the planet Earth, that are

equivalent to, say, the Rocky Mountains.

It would take all the mass in

the Universe visible to the naked eye.

That's the Earth, the Sun, the Solar system

the Milky way, all the stars in your galaxy,

all the stars in the surrounding galaxies.

Now, how fast have you gone so far?

Fastest speed acheived to day was by

your Voyager space probe, which accelerated to

about 55 000 miles per hour and is

currently heading our of your solar system

into deep space. Now...

let's suppose, that that is a spaceship,

you are an astronaut

on that ship and you are headed

towards Alpha Centauri, which, I remind you

is 4.5 light years from here.

Now, let's assume you started your

voyage 20 thousand years ago

this is the time of cromagnon man,

paleolithicum, cavepainting

in the south of France. You're hunting

bison, rhino, wooly mamooths.

And you're speeding along at 50 000 miles per hour

for another ten thousand years.

Now you're in neolithicum, mankind

begines agriculture, domesticating animals

sheep, goats, horses, pigs...

Now, when I say pigs, i mean

breeding domesticated pigs.

This was mankind's first heart sin. Why?

Because in order to breed animals you have to become

sedentary, this begats settlements, which begat towns

which begat cities, which begat all the

problems that will be mankind's destruction.

Breeding dogs is not a sin because they all

go with you on your nomadic hunts.

But pigs, that was the sin.

I've diverted.

The ship continues on it's way for another

6000 years. Ancient Egypt, pharaohs, pyramids

few thousand years more

past ancient Greece, ancient Rome

and into the middle ages and more

heart sin. An italian poet decides

it would be a good idea to climb

a mountain just for the fun of it.

The Swiss didn't do it, the sherpas

didn't do it, until bored 19th century

english man paid them. And they

robbed the mountains of their dignity.

That was a sin.

The ship moves on...

Declaration of Independence

World War I, communism,

World War Il, Marylin Monroe

Elvis Presley, to the present day.

Now, how far have you gone?

You have accomplished just 15%

of your journey to the Alpha Centauri.

You have in procreating gone

through 500 generations.

How could you have avoided

inbreeding, rebellions, murders?

Would you not just became grotesquely

maldeformed freaks

with no idea of where you came from or

why you began the journey to begin with.

And might I add, that the closest star

which might be considered non-lethal

is not 4.5 light years from here.

It's more like 200 000.

By now the spaceship was

surrounded by deep black space.

And knowing that, as I said, madness,

rebellion and murder might set in our astronauts,

trying to prevent that, devised a way

to read each other's mind.

Like this, they were able to

maintain their equilibrium.

Order had to be enforced. And that's

what we had to do as well.

And now here they are, doing

the very same voyage we had done

only in reverse.

Now, these images came much later from the ship.

Battery power was running low.

And the first signs of chaos became visible.

Something had to be done to drastically

increase the speed of their voyage.

It was a rogue mathematician who kept

the secret of a breakthrough invention to himself.

You just want to keep it to yourself for a while

because for a while you are the only

person on Earth who knows something.

And that little secret is just so exciting.

But then, of course, you want people to

know and you want people to start using it.

It was something that was kind of

hard to grasp, I believe, because

I've been looking for them for so long

and all of the sudden, it happened.

And moreover, the theory just really

started rolling, looking at asteroids

comets and how all the solar system is

controlled in many ways by these chaotic tunnels.

And this is how the chaotic transport can occur.

So in this particular image is an artist

conception of some of these gravitational tunnels

that are in our Solar system,

that connects our Solar system.

And this is a step forward from the Copernican

view of the Solar system, where

in this image you can see that the orbits of the planets all

around the Sun, except they are all separated

they are all in this very classical

conception of the Solar system.

And now, 500 years later, our picture

of the Solar system is

slightly different. I'm using an image from the

Shatrian cathedral's floor,

actually it has even more antiquity

origin of erm, erm, the labyrinth,

which shows that the whole Solar system is

really integrated. And this integration

even though this picture, of course, is very nice and even,

but actually, these are generated by chaotic orbits.

That is what I call a chaotic transport.

And I was the first, really, to discover

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