TAU ZERO WEBSITE REFERENCE LIST
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This page lists references that are cited in these Tau Zero web pages. These are provided so that you can check the facts upon which this site is based. In many cases these references are professional journal papers which might be difficult for general audiences or young students to access and read. For general audiences and students, we have a recommended reading list.

  
 
 
  • Alcubierre, M. (1994), The warp drive: hyper-fast travel within general relativity,” in Classical and Quantum Gravity, Vol. 11, pp. L73-L77.
  • Anderson, John. L. (1996) "Leaps of the Imagination: Interstellar Flight and the Horizon Mission Methodology," Journal of the British Interplanetary Society 49: pp.15-20.
  • Anderson, Poul. (1970) Tau Zero. Norwalk, Conn: Easton Press.
  • Belbruno, Edward, ed. 1996. Practical Robotics For Interstellar Missions. (Part I, II, and III.), Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 49(1), 49(4), and 49(9). (1996).
  • Brin, Glen David. 1983. The 'Great Silence': the Controversy Concerning Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life, Quarterly Journal of Royal Astronomical Society, 24: 283-309.
  • Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2003. (2002) United States. Executive Office. Office of Management & Budget. Washington: GPO.<PDF>
  • Budgetary Analysis of NASA’s New Vision for Space Exploration (2004) Washington DC: Congressional Budget Office (September). <PDF>
  • Chew, Gilbert., Monica Dolyle and Michael Stancati. 2001. Interstellar Spaceflight Primer, Final report on NASA Contract NASW-5067, order 167, by Science Applications, International Corp., Schaumburg, IL, 2001
  • Clarke, Arthur C. (1972) Profiles of the future: An inquiry into the limits of the possible. Bantam Books.
  • Cole D., and Puthoff, H. (1993), “Extracting Energy and Heat from the Vacuum,” in Phys Rev E, Vol. 48, pp. 1562-1565.
  • Colliers Magazine (1952-1954) A series of articles (1952: 3-22, 10-18, 10-25; 1953: 2-28, 3-7, 3-14, 6-27; 1954: 4-30) about the conquest of space, which was later expanded into the following books (list from Elliott Swanson):
    • Ley, W. & illustrated by Bonestell, C. 1950. The Conquest of Space, Viking Press.
    • Ryan, C. (ed.), von Braun, W., Ley, W. & illustrated by Bonestell, C. 1952. Across the Space Frontier, Viking Press.
    • Von Braun, W., Whipple, F, & Ley, W. 1953. The Conquest of the Moon, Viking Press.
    • Ley, W., von Braun, W., & illustrated by Bonestell, C. 1956. The Conquest of Space, Viking Press, and Sidgwick & Jackson, London (Revision of the 1950 book).
    • Ley, W. & illustrated by Bonestell, C. 1956. The Exploration of Mars, Viking Press.
    • Ley, W. & illustrated by Bonestell, C. 1964. Beyond the Solar System, Viking Press.

  • Cook, Nick (2003) The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology. Broadway.
  • Curran, Douglas. (2001) In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space. New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 2nd ed.
  • Dyson, Freeman. (1968). Interstellar Transport. Physics Today
  • Emme, Eugene M., ed. (1982) Science Fiction and Space Futures Past and Present. San Diego CA: American Astronautical Society Publication Office.
  • Farmer, M. and Prucher, J. (as viewed 2003-July-19), Science Fictions Citations for the Oxford English Dictionary, http://www.jessesword.com/SF/sf_citations.shtml
    • anti-gravitational (adj.) George Griffith's "A Visit to the Moon". in its 1900 serialization in Pearson's Magazine.
    • antigravity (n.) 1932 from J. M. Walsh's "The Vanguard to Neptune".
    • hyperspace (n.) Nicholls' Encyclopedia suggests that the term was probably invented by John Campbell in "Islands in Space," which first appeared in Amazing Stories Quarterly in 1931.
    • space warp (n.) 1935 cite from Nat Schachner's "The Son of Redmask".
    • warp drive (n.) antedating 1951: 1951 cite from a letter by Malcolm Gibbs in the May 1951 Marvel Science Stories. Robert Silverberg's "Stepsons of Terra"; 1958 first edition.
  • Finney, Ben R. and Eric M. Jones. 1985. Interstellar migration and the human experience. Berkeley CA: University of California Press.
  • Forward, R.L. (1984), Extracting Electrical Energy from the Vacuum by Cohesion of Charged Foliated Conductors,” in Physical Review B, Vol. B30, pp. 1700-1702.
  • Foster, Richard N. (1986) Innovation: The Attacker’s Advantage. New York NY: Summit Books.
  • Friedman, Louis. 2005. Solar Sail update: The End of Cosmos 1; The Beginning of the Next Chapter. Planetary News (30 Sept.) Accessed 10 Feb. 2006. <http://www.planetary.org/news/2005/0930_Solar_Sail_Update_The_End_of_Cosmos_1.html>
  • Gilster, Paul. 2004. Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration. New York: Copernicus Books.
  • Greenwald, Jeff (1999) Future Perfect: how Star Trek Conquered Planet Earth. New York: Penguin Books.
  • Gunn, James, ed. (1988), The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Viking, NY, pp 435-437: Where E. E. (“Doc”) Smith is credited with the first mention of faster-than-light travel in his book, The Skylark of Space (1928). Note that this is just 2 years after Goddard’s first successful rocket experiment of 1926.
  • Hamming, Richard (1986) "You and Your Research." Lecture at Morris Research & Engineering Center. <PDF> Accessed 17 Feb. 2006.
  • Hartz, Jim. and Rick Chappell (1998) Worlds Apart: How the Distance Between Science and Journalism Threatens America's Future. Nashville TN: First Amendment Center, 2nd ed.
  • Jackson, Gerald P. and Steven Howe. (2005) The Physics of Nuclear Sails, Presented at the 53rd JANNAF Propulsion Meeting, Monterey, CA, (8 December)
  • Kardashev, Nikolai, S. 1985. On the inevitability and the possible structures of supercivilizations. The search for extraterrestrial life: Recent developments; Proceedings of the Symposium, Boston, MA, June 18-21, 1984 (A86-38126 17-88). Dordrecht, D. Reidel Publishing Co.: 497-504.
  • Kennedy, Andrew. 2006. Interstellar Travel: The Wait Calculation and the Incentive Trap of Progress,Journal of the British Interplanetary Society 59, pp.239-246.
  • Kondo, Yoji,, F. Bruhweiler, J. Moore, and C. Sheffield (eds.) 2003. Interstellar Travel and Multi-Generation Space Ships. Apogee Press.
  • Landis, Geoff. (1995) Small Laser-Propelled Interstellar Probe. Paper IAA-95-IAA.4.1.102, International Astronautics Association.
  • Liewer, P. C., R.A. Mewaldt, J.A. Ayon, and R.A. Wallace. (2000) NASA's Interstellar Probe Mission. AIP Conference Proceedings, 504: 911-916.
  • McInnes, Colin R. and John C. Brown. 1990. Terminal Velocity of a Laser-Driven Light Sail, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 27(1):48-52
  • Medvedev, Mikhail and Melott, Adrian (2007) "Do extragalactic cosmic rays induce cycles in fossil diversity?" Astrophysical Journal 664, pp. 879-889.
  • Millis, M. G. (1990) "Speculating on Space Futures", Space Policy, Vol. 6, N. 4, pp 353-356.
  • Millis, M. G. (1997) "Challenge to Create the Space Drive", AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 13, N. 5, pp. 577-582.
  • Morris, M. S. and Thorne, K. S. (1988), "Wormholes in spacetime and their use for interstellar travel: A tool for teaching general relativity", American Journal of Physics, 56, 395-412.
  • Morrison, David (2004) From the introduction to NASA's Asteroid Comet Impact Hazards site at http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/
  • Park, Robert L. (1997) Personal phone interview with Marc Millis about quantum teleportation (December).
  • Rabounski, Dmitri (2007) The Relativistic Effect of the Deviation between the CMB Temperatures Obtained by the COBE Satellite, in Progress in Physics, Vol.1, pp.24-26.
  • Rohde, Robert and Muller, Richard (2005), "Cycles in fossil diversity," Nature 434 (10 March 2005), pp. 208-210.
  • Taubes, G. (1993) Bad Science - the Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion, Random House, NY
  • Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin (1912) The Investigations of Space by Means of Reactive Devices. Vestnik Vozdukhoplavania reprinted Sobranie sochinenii K. E. Tsiolkovskogo, 2 (1954). Translation, John Logsdon. Exploring the Unknown, The NASA History Series. NASA SP-4407 (1995): 59-84.
  • Turnbull, M. (2004) The Search for Habitable Worlds, PhD Dissertation, University of Arizona.
  • Visser, M. (1995) Lorentzian Wormholes - From Einstein to Hawking, AIP Press, Woodbury, NY
  • Wells, H. G. (1899), The First Men in the Moon, the 2001 printing as part of the SF Masterworks, Gollancz, London.
 
     
 
 
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