{"id":7773,"date":"2014-05-12T01:37:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T05:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7773"},"modified":"2014-05-12T01:56:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T05:56:40","slug":"john-g-cramer-on-space-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7773","title":{"rendered":"John G. Cramer on Space Drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/jcramer\/\" target=\"_d\">John G Cramer<\/a>, a theoretical physicist at the Univ. of Washington, has had a column for many years in the magazine\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.analogsf.com\/2014_07-08\/index.shtml\" target=\"_d\">Analog Science Fiction &amp; Fact<\/a>\u00a0in which he writes about topics at the leading\u00a0edge of science and beyond. His latest column is about two concepts for propellantless propulsion systems and some intriguing experimental results:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.analogsf.com\/2014_07-08\/altview.shtml\" target=\"_d\">Is It Space Drive Time &#8211; Alternate View\/Analog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some resources :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/physics.fullerton.edu\/~jimw\/\" target=\"_d\">Jim Woodward<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woodward_effect\" target=\"_d\">Woodward effect &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harold_G._White_(NASA)\" target=\"_d\">Harold G. White (NASA) &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/archive\/nasa\/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov\/20110023492.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Eagleworks Laboratories: Advanced Propulsion Physics Research, H. G. White et al. &#8211; NASA (pdf)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_vacuum_plasma_thruster\" target=\"_d\">Quantum vacuum plasma thruster &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is a video of the\u00a0talk &#8211;\u00a0<em>Exotic Paths to the Stars<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; by John G. Cramer at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipcentury.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Starship Century Symposium<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0June 2013 (see <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3070\" target=\"_blank\">post here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PZG1LK0KjKs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gary Hudson, of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssi.org\" target=\"_blank\">Space Studies Institute<\/a>, gave a talk at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press\/2014\/january\/stanford-hosts-nasa-innovative-advanced-concepts-symposium\/\" target=\"_blank\">NASA&#8217;s\u00a0Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Symposium<\/a> (see <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6384\" target=\"_blank\">post here<\/a>) in which he discussed (starting at aound 1:17:30 into the video)\u00a0of\u00a0SSI&#8217;s support for Woodward&#8217;s research.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; outline: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.livestream.com\/embed\/niac2014?layout=4&amp;clip=pla_bd9c1386-03c5-4c18-8349-1fb8ce972be7&amp;color=0xe7e7e7&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;mute=false&amp;iconColorOver=0x888888&amp;iconColor=0x777777&amp;allowchat=true&amp;height=295&amp;width=480\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Robert Winglee, \u00a0David Wettergreen, &amp;\u00a0Gary Hudson<\/strong><br \/>\nWatch <a title=\"live\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livestream.com\/?utm_source=lsplayer&amp;utm_medium=embed&amp;utm_campaign=footerlinks\">live streaming video<\/a> from <a title=\"Watch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livestream.com\/niac2014?utm_source=lsplayer&amp;utm_medium=embed&amp;utm_campaign=footerlinks\">niac2014<\/a> at livestream.com<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor\u00a0John G Cramer, a theoretical physicist at the Univ. of Washington, has had a column for many years in the magazine\u00a0Analog Science Fiction &amp; Fact\u00a0in which he writes about topics at the leading\u00a0edge of science and beyond. His latest column is about two concepts for propellantless propulsion systems and some intriguing experimental results:\u00a0Is It Space &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7773\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John G. Cramer on Space Drives<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology","category-speculation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-21n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1466,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1466","url_meta":{"origin":7773,"position":0},"title":"The Big Bang as you&#8217;ve never heard it before","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Alan Boyle reports on the cosmic sounds create by physicist John G Cramer of the University of Washington and columnist for Analog Magazine: Listen to the big bang \u2013 now in hi-fi! - Cosmic Log Cramer converted cosmic microwave background data from NASA's WMAP mission and from ESA's Planck mission\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Space Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Space Music","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=8"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2056,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2056","url_meta":{"origin":7773,"position":1},"title":"Space Studies Institute (SSI) opens Exotic Propulsion Initiative","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 1, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Space Studies Institute, whose mission is \"to complete the missing technological links to make possible the productive use of the abundant resources in space\". 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