Thread by @wmcarterelliott

I hate to be a downer, so I should point out that I think it's possible to build a Faster-Than-Light spacecraft (we may already have) capable of traveling the galaxy like in Star Trek/SWars.

The fun thing about the physics is that it explains the strange aspects of Roswell Foil.

https://twitter.com/hello_mab/status/1320118506373980160

Thought you might be interested in this...

Remember the consistent reports describing the weird properties of the foil scraps found around the Roswell UFO "crash site"?

Looks like metal foil, except you can wad it up and it flattens itself out.

@HamillHimself @WilliamShatner

https://twitter.com/wmcarterelliott/status/1320277506616745985

I actually predicted the photonic crystal state of matter >25 years ago, but it wasn't part of my job and I couldn't publish it even if I could've written it up, so...

I had other, more pressing problems to deal with (preventing a nuclear war, etc), so I just shelved it.

ANYWAY - The Roswell Foil can't be wrinkled, neither can it be cut with scissors, nor does it burn, melt, or even get soot on it if you hold it over a flame.

Mainstream Physicists consider it nonsense, the product of the fertile imagination of a people in 1947.

Note wrinkles:

The key point about Bose-Einstein Condensates is that when you cool a gas down to almost Absolute Zero (temperature), the universe seems to lose track of the atoms in the gas, and the BEC acts like one subatomic particle, but big enough to see with the naked eye.

A BEC has no...

...no front, back, left or right side. Per Quantum Mechanics, it is one point.

It has one "state-vector", meaning it cannot sustain any field within it.

That includes gravitational fields.

So gravity must distort itself in its proximity.

Bend gravity, distort time.

A BEC, in a very real sense, is a hole in our 3D+time universe.

A Faraday Cage is a similar concept - It's an envelope made of an electrical conductor that guarantees that all locations inside the cage are at the same electrical potential - So no radio waves can get in or out.

Replace electrical conductor with *gravitational* conductor (BEC) and you can see that a "Faraday Cage" made from a BEC material shields the inside from external gravity.

It can go faster than light because it really isn't in *our* universe anymore once you close the hatch.

By the same logic, the local inertial space (where we live) can't detect any of the mass inside the BEC, so it's effectively weightless, and *any* thrust will accelerate it instantly. It can go Mach 10 and make a sudden 90° turn.

Just like the UFO footage that the Navy released.

Please note that the UFO from the F-18 gun camera imagery has a halo around it. That's the light that the UFO blocked going *around* it.

Black Holes do the same thing - "Gravitational Lensing".

So how do we make Roswell Foil?

Holography. Just like the dove on your Visa card.

More later, if anybody is interested in FTL Propulsion.

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