From Impulse Engine to Warp Engine

First I will describe the Impulse Engine which actually works and can replace the use of fan, as in small robots carrying some stuff. Then, I will use that to explain how to achieve the Warp Engine.

The important idea to keep in mind is hit, as in strike. For instance, consider two billiard balls rolling straight towards one another. At some point they will hit one another and bounce backwards. It is the moment that they hit one another that we are interested in.

Creating a Hit

Now, consider two iron bars with wire wrapped around them. Once we connect two ends of wire on each of the bars they become magnetized. Let us magnetize them such that the two ends that are facing one another become same pole. That is the hit we are looking for. This will cause the bars to move away from one another.

Creating Motion

The engine will be a box that will contain all the components. If we can make the engine to move, then so will whatever the engine is attached to.
Make one of the bars fixed inside the box (the engine) so it does not move. Suppose, to the end of the other bar we attach a spring. The spring will be attached to the engine. Now create a hit (by magnetizing the bars). The bar with a spring at its tail will retreat. This will cause the box as a whole (closed system) to move in opposite direction, just like the billiard balls.

The Impulse Engine

Now we need to create smooth motion out of hits, the Impulse Engine. To that end, note that the spring will return the swinging bar back. So, suppose we do the following.

Make a short current, and then stop the current.
The bar with spring retreats, then it begins bouncing back.
Just when it reaches its original position, make a short current and then stop it.
Repeat the above steps.

Let us say the spring can bounce back sufficient number of times per second to make the hits appear to creating a smooth motion. That will be our engine. So, how do we turn the current on/off?

Well, a simple way is to use a light switch. As we turn the current on, the bar that retreats will allow light to reach the other end and shut down power. As the bar comes back it will cut the light, and current will flow again.

The power of engine can be controlled with current. It may be better to also have additional wire wrapping on the bars on a different circuit. When needed the other wrappings can be connected for more magnetic strength.

Application of Impulse Engine

Small robots for carrying stuff are safest initial experiments. Suppose the part that contains engines is like a match box. Put two impulse engines at each edge, near corners. The idea is that, the two engines at each edge will push the match box. This provides moving back and forth. In addition, when two engines on a diagonal are turned on, the box will rotate.
For lift off I suggest three engines as three vertices of a triangle for stability. These impulse engines will be pushing the match box upward.

Sometimes on a snowy day cars get stuck and we need some people to push our car. Two impulse engines at the back of the car can do that.

Since an impulse engine can easily be replaced with a warp engine, submarines and ships can replace their fans with impulse engines. Two smaller impulse engines in front can provide steering.

Hover crafts should replace their fans with impulse engines. The very best use, should we achieve sufficient confidence in the use of impulse engines would be replacing helicopters for saving people without blowing them off.

I hope human stupidity will not overcome us and that we will only use impulse engines for good uses. Satellite and space station movements, and even lift-off of a space shuttle are among good uses.

The Warp Engine

The basic idea of a warp engine is to remove the mechanical spring and replace it with (motionless) electronics. Once this is achieved, we will not need the light switch to turn current on/off. Instead, this can be done at rates of millions or more times per second with electronic switching. Without using too many technical/mathematical terms, such as limit point, it is not hard to understand that as the number of switching per second increases we get closer to the power of hit. That is, it will be as if the magnetic force is continuously pushing the warp engine with a constant acceleration. Now, in friction-less outer space a constant acceleration will continuously increase the speed of a space ship.

We can calculate the distance that a warp engine travels by each hit, and even the acceleration of the ship as a whole. At any rate, space travel cannot be achieve by shooting mass out of the space ship. The warp engine is the only solution. Otherwise the ship needs to carry that mass and constantly replenish it.

Towards Warp Engine

So, how do we simulate the spring action electronically? Suppose you are holding your hands against a car as if you want to push it. At one instant, the driver pushes on gas and in exact same instance you push against the car. You both stop together after a very brief moment. Now, the car hit you but you did not move. That is because the impact of hit was transformed to calories in your muscles. So, it is possible to reduce a hit to some form of energy, without motion.

The most ideal case would be if the hit could be reduced to generating electricity. Then we could use it to cool off the warp engine. Anyway, the principle is simple.

A hit has occurred within a closed system (the warp engine). One part has retreated like a spring, by transforming the effect of hit into energy. Therefore the system as a whole will bounce in the opposite direction.

Closing

Today is a sad but hopeful day. We have lost 58000+ souls, and infections to corona virus have passed one million. Yet, I hope there is a brighter future for mankind. It would be nice to see the day that we can at least reduce the effects of accidents. For now, we are causing accidents so some of us can live happily. I am talking about causing poverty and taking advantage of millions for the sake of a few. It is fine to live a great life without causing misery to others. And yes, it can be achieved so long as the rich do not panic when their wealth is not growing fast enough.

Dr. Z. April 28, 2020.
This article serves as patent. I can be reached at zorabih@gmail.com.