...me- ster will often give the bystanders. How much can happen in a second’s space; how many things depend on a throw of the die! “That was his last car... ... over pale faces and dark, al- mond-shaped eyes. He shivered over midnight adventures, cut short by the cool thrust of a jealous blade, as he saw a me... ...lone in the closet. Have you never launched into the immensity of time and space as you read the geological writings of Cuvier? Carried by his fancy, ... ... forbade the idea of anything supernatural; but for all that, in the brief space between his dreaming and waking life, the young man’s judgment remain... ...Skin niture; were expressed by the surrounding disorder, and brought light films over the vision of those assembled, so that the air seemed full of in... ... “‘Are you so certain of her virtue?’ “‘The boldest and even the cleverest adventurers among us, acknowledge themselves defeated, and continue to be h... ...d francs. And then, if the trade will not give your aunt her due, some old adventurer, or some shady countess or other, will be found to put her name ...

...92 Printed in the United States of America 3 BEGIN THE ADVENTURE How to Break the Light Barrier by A.D. 2070 Homer... ...ini & John Archibald Wheeler (1995) called it the characteristic speed of space, and they were then able to apply it to all "primordial forces" wheth... ...res an analogy wherein a case is made for calling c the resonant speed of space. For the engineer and the radio amateur, the term "resonance" can ... ...wrong with relativity is its usual interpretation. This book, BEGIN THE ADVENTURE, 2004, is the last in a trilogy starting with THE LIGHT BARRIER,... ...ly is "reality." I am, however confident that much of my research in thin films is performed under the rubric of STR, my ignorance of "reality" notwi... ...n Bussard and others. An eight-year manned mission is planned to place a spacebuoy ¼-way to Alpha Centauri at San Salvador Station and return to Ea... ... a perfect focus for our first manned and womanned ('manned) interstellar adventure. If we are ever to reach the stars we must first get our heads...

...at universal constant. It has been called the Lorentz speed; Ignazio Ciufolini & John Archibald Wheeler (1995) called it the characteristic speed of space, and they were then able to apply it to all "primordial forces" whether electromagnetic or gravitational or other (what other, C&W did not say)....

...ld have to go back ages before Caesar’s day to find the first one. To save space I will go back only a couple of generations and start with an inciden... ... to a printer. She was tired of trying to keep me out of mischief, and the adventure of the measles decided her to put me into more masterful hands th... ... stakes rise before me of their own accord and I notice the large or small space which he takes up on our road. Are your kings spaced off in your mind... ...epresent the length of a king’s reign. And so on. Y ou will have plenty of space, for by my project you will use the parlor wall. You do not mark on t... ...They gavel me, these stale and overworked stage direc tions, these carbon films that got burnt out long ago and cannot now carry any faintest thread ... ...g Strait whale fishery and the shop talk of the veteran exercises of that adventure bristling trade through catching catfish with a “trot line” Sunda... ...conspirators, horse jockeys, bunco steerers, misers, swindlers, explorers, adventurers by land and sea, bankers, financiers, astronomers, naturalists,...