Warp Drive Demonstration Part of Advanced Physics Lecture At MarCon Convention

May 21, 2009 - PRLog -- On Sunday, May 24, at 1:PM in the Hyatt Regency Morrow Room, the MarCon science fiction convention will present research and devleopment engineer Marshall Barnes giving a presentation entitled Engineering Spacetime: From Teleportation To Warp Drive And Time Travel that will feature a video taped demonstration of propoulsion created by the folding of space using his own STDTS prototype. The STDTS has been covered in some media before, mostly online  http://press.xtvworld.com/article11448.html and radio, but has also gotten the attention of the son of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry, who has allowed his supportive comments to be filmed for a documentary.

Marshall will also discuss the physics of warp drives which are not those that have gotten much of the media attention while remaining highly theoretical. In addition, he will present the results of his analysis of the Air Force's 2004 Teleportation Phyiscs Study which is the first and only such analysis of that report. His analysis http://login.prospero.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=kr-fway... was part of a commercial effort to look at the Study to see if there was a viable research and development effort that could be derived from it and prompted renewed national interest in the Study in 2005 and 2006.

Marshall will close his presentation with a discussion on how both technologies relate to time travel physics and what that means for the future. Of particular interest is the fact that his STDTS appears to be able to be modified to be able to cause the same type of spacetime curvature as predicted by the time machine patent design of University of Connecticut physics professor Ronald Mallett. Mallett has gotten worldwide attention for his efforts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHC8z6ULs18&feature=PlayLi... but needs some where near to $250,000 to even begin a preliminary test. Marshall is expected to announce at the conference his attention to race the professor to see who gets to prove time travel possible first.



The presentation will be recorded for an upcoming audio documentary to serve as the companion for a book proposal that is being represented for Marshall by the Jeff Herman Agency.