SlipString Drive (TM) - String Theory, Gravity, and "Faster Than Light" Travel

String Theory, Gravity, and "Faster Than Light" Travel

String and M-Theory Basics, a More Complete Theory of Our Universe,
and a Hypothesis for Practical "Faster Than Light" Travel

Growing up during the late 1970s and early 1980s, Andrew Bender developed a passion for science, especially astronomy, by reading about science and science fiction, and watching Carl Sagan’s Cosmos TV series as a child. Although slowed by medical complications including chronic lower back pain from an accident resulting in a spinal cord injury, Bender received his baccalaureate degree in astronomy from Vassar College in 2000, and was the first student in a wheelchair to live on campus at Vassar.

Since then, Bender has been independently studying string theory and cosmology, and has spent thousands of hours expanding and experimenting on his mental models of the universe. Simulations of these models include membrane collisions, creating new universes, and discovering ways to transfer energy directly from membrane collisions to individual “virtual” strings within each membrane. He has modeled warping and isolating regions of spacetime, which could allow for practical “faster than light” travel without violating the laws of physics or having any negative relativistic effects.

Bender also developed a unique method for generating the massive gravity waves necessary to make such travel possible, and has spent more than four years discussing, refining, writing, and illustrating these theories. SlipString Drive is the result of these efforts.

While at Vassar College, Bender wrote his Senior Thesis: Blue Stragglers in the Outer Regions of Globular Cluster M3 (available in Adobe Acrobat format) where he discovered 34 new blue straggler star candidates in the outer regions of the cluster. He also researched and presented earlier versions of this work at several summer research programs. Originally he presented his work at Vassar College's URSI summer research program, and later he presented his work at the Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium's annual symposium at Colgate University in the late '90s.

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