Looking into the future

Looking into the future

THE END OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM

The sun will use up its hydrogen fuel and it will destroy the earth. The helium that is left will burn into carbon.

The sun will expand and become red hot. But it will have a much larger surface, so the total amount of heat will be much greater than now, and the earth will fry.

WAYS OF COLONISING NEW WORDS

Before the death of the sun we will spread trough our own galaxy. The most practical way is to build large ships and just send them off, not even with any special destination in mind.

The most logical way to do it seems to be to convert small asteroids. We will meet other forms of intelligence doing the same thing. None of the other planets is habitable without heavy engineering. We could colonise some of them.

CHANCES OF FINDING HABITABLE NEW ETS

These space travellers will come across another solar system with an asteroid belt. They will perhaps be able to leave their original asteroid, which by then will be in a rather bad condition, and take on a new one.

SPEED OF TRAVEL AND DURATION OF SPACE JOURNEYS

Light is the faster thing known in the universe. Just as there is a sound barrier, there seems to be a light barrier.

As long as the speed - of - light limit lasts, we cannot expect to communicate between the starts in any way that we know about now.

A NEW SCIENTIFIC THEORY

Scientist now theorise that there are particles called tachyons that always go faster than light. They have not actually been detected. They will be extremely difficult to detect.

APPLICATION OF NEW THEORIES TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF "SPEED"

We can speculate on the possibility of changing all the particles in a spaceships simultaneously into the tachyonic particles. We could take off at many times the speed of light and turn every thing back into ordinary particles. There are enormous engineering problems in changing all the particles in the ship, including those of the human beings, into tachyons.