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| Space Travel |  the problem arises for any would-be proponent of ufological space travel in spaceships. We could conclude from experiments carried out down here on Earth, this postulate accurate, as the results obtained from it, show a strong vindication even when forensically evaluated back in the laboratory. There would appear to be no anomaly in the theory, as both equation and prediction have been met. Yet an anomaly does still arise from the sheer volume of sighting's which seem ever surmountable.
It appears to be what any sane individual might term, a contradiction. Either science is right, or ufologist's are! Indeed a quandary.
But before we continue further, let's do as promised and peek inside the world of science, and see how they reached their conclusion of a ufological aberration.
To a scientist, cosmologist or physicist, any craft making its journey across the inhospitable wastes of space would incur that indignant problem we spoke about previously: Special relativity. Light would be a constant in a vacuum, measured simply as a mathematical (c). There would be no variation in this velocity, and so, although we might believe a vessel in transit may travel at that astronomical speed, in fact, time for any would-be traveller will quickly diminish. One month in space at the velocity of light would almost certainly measure fifty years here on planet earth.
If we then reverse the analogy somewhat, to give us a greater insight into this delicate topic, we should assume, rather than an alien making some long journey to see us, we could visit them at their illustrious home.
If they inhabited a small planet, similar to ours, around Proxima centuri, we might argue a round trip to see them should take 8 years if we travelled there and back at the determinable speed of light.
But if time shrinks due to a body of mass being measured by its resistance to acceleration, then our space voyage wouldn't take 8 years, but might take somewhere in the region of 4,000 years! And that should theoretically mean, if we were arriving home from our journey today, after visiting our closest neighbour, and on universal terms they are no more than a stone's throwaway, then we might have began our voyage around the time Stonehenge was under construction. A pretty awesome thought.
And naturally we should assume, any extraterrestrial life out there will also sustain the very same problematic journey as ourselves.
But some might argue at that point, their technology is far superior to ours; and well it might be. But before they do, they should have their veils of ignorance lifted, and understand, here we deal with physics, not technology.
It makes not one iota of a difference whether your craft is the most advanced piece of kit in the universe, or a clapped out old banger from Arthur Daley: The laws of physics are equal to all and a divisibility cannot be struck. Therefore, we must instantly assume, that any adventurer destined for planet Earth could only ever make his journey if the laws of physics were rewritten.
But to countenance this argument, and place it in context, we have to first ascertain what we actually deal with when we delve lucidly inside the mechanics of light itself, for if science is to be believed, and many do not believe them, an appraisal of light needs to be understood. So what is light?
Well, from a dictionary definition, we might interpret it as: "The energy that stimulates the sense of sight and makes things visible". But from a more esoteric understanding, to place a stronger definition, we might describe it as, an indivisible unit of electromagnetic energy that oscillates within the natural waves that permeate any region where light is visible to an observer.
And we should also conclude, that the photon, which makes up light, itself is a massless particle, and therefore determine light cannot feasibly move anywhere, for if it did, its body would contain mass. In other words, it would be measured by its resistance to acceleration. We might
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