StarDrive Engineering is beautifully formatted, with many great illustrations like those on the next pages! Please feel free to examine the following Excerpt from the book's extraordinary chapter on Quantum Gravity**, in which an elegant new proposal on this exciting and key scientific topic is presented – in terms that most readers will understand. This will give you an idea not only of how comprehensive and detailed StarDrive Engineering is but of how hard we've worked to make it "accessible" as well - - - ->

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an Electrodynamic Field Generator:
 
    The official name of the StarDrive 'Electronic Dynamo', per the U.S. Patent and PCT (international) Application, is Electrodynamic Field Generator. The EDF Generator uses banks of permanent magnets and rotating Field Coils to produce a very-high DC rotor voltage, and plane-parallel ring electrode arrays to electrostatically expand and control that voltage as applied to the outer hull, so that huge quantities of external Field electrons may be accelerated to energy levels which are usually achieved only with a particle accelerator! It's somewhat like a glorified arc welder whose output is deliberately shorted to its own housing, and the DC voltage and current across the emitter and collector housing sections can be thermionically elevated to lightning-like values: but the external uniform Field current density is limited to a value that falls short of damaging the hull!
 

Electrodynamics:

Electrodynamics, study of phenomena associated with charged bodies in motion and varying electric and magnetic fields (see charge; electricity); since a moving charge produces a magnetic field, electrodynamics is concerned with effects such as magnetism, electromagnetic radiation, and electromagnetic induction, including such practical applications as the electric generator and the electric motor. This area of electrodynamics, often known as classical electrodynamics, was first systematically explained by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell. Maxwell's equations, a set of differential equations, describe the phenomena of this area with great generality. A more recent development is quantum electrodynamics, which was formulated to explain the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter, to which the laws of the quantum theory apply. The physicists P. A. M. Dirac, W. Heisenberg, and W. Pauli were the pioneers in the formulation of quantum electrodynamics. When the velocities of the charged particles under consideration become comparable with the speed of light, corrections involving the theory of relativity must be made; this branch of the theory is called relativistic electrodynamics. It is applied to phenomena involved with particle accelerators and with electron tubes that are subject to high voltages and carry heavy currents.

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    As illustrated above, electrons impelled along the radial electric field vectors indicated in blue can reach an impact velocity at the central collector sections which is very nearly that of light, and applied axial magnetic fields (as shown in green) allow broad modulation of the Drive Field current's properties. The Primary Arrays shown in the schematic diagram below have control grids which allow an electrical resistance imbalance to be imparted to two otherwise-symmetrical opposed Field hemi-currents, thus they can make the two relativistic current impulses variably non-isometric: thereby yielding thrust that is essentially reactionless! And a StarDrive device's simple DC Primary Power System, like the early FARADAY DISK DYNAMO, is wholly rotor-based . . .

    Needless to say, tremendous quantities of heat are produced in a StarDrive device's electron 'targets' or collector housing sections, and liquid sodium must be pumped through each Primary Array's ceramic resistor network as a coolant. However, this excess heat in smaller ground-based units may be used in the commercial generation of electric power and desalinization of seawater. In fact, because an electric discharge field has the unique capacity to absorb vast amounts of quantum background energy, the EDF Generator is so efficient that the latter task may become truly cost-effective for the first time! And not only will the largest over-unity StarDrive Dynamo units be able to output electric power at 60 to 720 megawatt output levels, they'll be able to do so for many years before the permanent magnet banks must be remagnetized!! The only truly external input energy required in the meantime is that necessary to initially bring the rotor up to speed . . .

Those of you who find this advanced technological prospect for our future in the 21^st century as exciting and fascinating as we do should take this opportunity to make StarDrive Engineering a valuable addition to your personal or reference library.

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   [This Excerpt provides more detailed information about the EDF Generator reactionless electric propulsion system.]