Space Hunters| Breakthrough

Breakthrough

Faster-than-light travel is the key to humanity’s dreams of inter-galactic space travel. Your challenge is to create an app, tool, game, or other interactive application that showcases both existing, as well as next generation/theoretical, breakthrough spacecraft propulsion in an engaging way.

Space Flight Simulator

Summary

Development of videogame for space ship with simulation of flight controls by mouse keyboard and even by joystick for future simulations to catch the attention of young people used in this form of entertainment to educate and get interested on the NASA and the projects

How We Addressed This Challenge

Making a program (Videogame) to simulate flight and the speed of the different Propeller types on the rockets











How We Developed This Project

The leader of the project got interested on the idea of the different rocketsand the theory and facts behind the propellers specifications, for the hardware was used laptops and for the project development the Game Engine Unreal Engine 4to make in visual script the design and programming of the alpha version, the development time for a big interaction in less of 48 hours is hard for a team of 2 members, in the achievements we managed to make a functional ship simulator with controls by the keyboard and the joystick as well for development of an space scene and a planet to get the concept and a report of theory regarding the propeller by Alcubierre Metric for speed greater than light.


For a thousand years, ancient civilizations argued that they were able to delivered complex systems for many things, like architectural, design, energy including interestellar transportation.


One of the best example we have been following was the mythological Sanskrit called Vaimanika Shastra in the Indian Bhagavad-Gita texts.


They say that if we could combine different materials like mercury (something like a mercury vortex), argon, xenon, krypton, ion, and plasma, we could transport beyond the galaxies in a spaceship that they called Vimanas.






We also continued with the investigation and we found relevant theories and things like potential materials to be considered:




  • Thulium (Tm)
  • Tin (Sn)
  • Tungsten (W)
  • Argon (Ar)
  • Sulfur (S)
  • Iodine (I)
  • Phosphorus (P)
  • Fluorine (F)
  • Francium (Fr)
  • Nitrogen (N)
  • Zirconium (Zr)



Then we make the investigation regarding the theory that will establish a way to make a fast traveling even over the speed of light by taking out the consequences regarding the mass and the law of relativity, in this case the Alcubierre metric is a speculative idea based on a mathematical model that would suppose possible trips at speeds greater than speed of light, that is, superluminal. Performing tricks with space-time, Alcubierre proposes the metric that bears his name as a solution to Einstein's equations within the framework of the General Theory of Relativity.


It was published in the scientific journal Classical and Quantum Gravity1 in 1994 by the Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre.

The concept of Alcubierre Warp Drive rather than exceeding the speed of light within a local reference frame a spacecraft would traverse distances by contracting in space in front of it and expanding space behind it resulting an effective faster-than-light travel, objects cannot accelerate to the speed of light within normal space-time because of theory of relativity of Albert Einstein instead the Alcubierre Drive shifts a space around an object so that the object will arrive at its destination faster than light willing normal space without breaking any laws of physics instead of trying to move the object from point A to point B it will be in this case just to bend the path in a way where the object is still while B is coming on the front while a is moving behind.


There has been already examples about the theory in a Sci-Fi work before Alcubierre if not by the hyper jump in your Star Wars (1977) as well on the famous franchise of a Star Trek (1966) when they are supposed to place the ship on an estate were they travel faster than light to go and transverse two different locations on Space, in the theory is an issue regarding the Alcubierre formula which is the idea of negative mass or negative energy (also called exotic material) that would be the only possible way to make it work right, however there is not a single case of existence regarding a negative mass in anyway, however it is just as possibility it is not show up yet, In theoretical physics, negative mass is a hypothetical concept of matter whose mass is of the opposite sign to that of the mass of ordinary matter (for example −2 kg). Such matter would violate one or more energy conditions and would show some strange properties that would derive from the ambiguity of whether the attraction should refer to the opposite-oriented force or acceleration of the negative mass. Negative mass is used in some speculative theories, such as where wormholes are built.


The closest thing that is known to this exotic matter is a region with pseudo-negative pressure density produced by the Casimir Effect which is an effect predicted by quantum field theory that is measurable and consists in that, given two metallic objects separated by a small distance compared to the size of the objects, an attractive force appears between them due to an effect associated with the quantum vacuum. The vacuum fluctuations of the quantum vacuum inside the space between the plates only exist in stationary vibration modes, so the number of modes of the intermediate space is less than the fluctuation modes outside; This causes an imbalance of vibrational modes, causing an external physical pressure that causes the plates to get closer to each other (the force is not gravitational).


There's also the concept of dark energy in physical cosmology, dark energy is a form of energy that would be present in all space, producing a pressure that tends to accelerate the expansion of the universe, resulting in a repulsive gravitational force.


Considering the existence of dark energy is the most common way to explain recent observations that the universe appears to have been expanding rapidly for about 6 billion years. The cause would be that the density of matter has continued to decrease, while dark energy has remained constant. In the standard model of cosmology, dark energy contributes almost 68% of the total mass-energy of the universe.


Everything we know about the law regarding the mass is positive when we push an object that will be going where we apply the impulse, the concept of any object with a negative mass will be if you push one way it will be contracting that impulse that way if the existence of such a thing like negative mass is proven then it will open to the idea regarding fast than speed traveling.


Besides the text sources of the Alcubierre theory is also other sources like the TED talk, Has been only found in spanish but even on the spanish version the subtitles in english help to get an easy and short concept of it.



Using Black Holes to Transverse the Universe with Dr. David Kipping


How can we contact with black holes and take the energy?


In the amazing video we upload to our resources as Dr. David Kipping Theories, he explain us how can we use this energy to achieve at least 20% of speed of light, and best, the total of them.



The Halo Drive


He explain us how can we generate tons of energy using lasers for interestellar travels.

The same consist in a complex binary star system where both stars have died and collapsed into black holes.


The black holes, orbit very close togheter whizzing around at relativistic speeds.

Its an ideal environment to perform a Dyson Slingshot but its too dangerous to attempt.

Imagine you are in a ship, travelling out of the space and the same has lasers to hunt this black hole.

You will have to border out and return the laser to the spaceship, then you will probably hunt the black hole and act as a mirror to take the energy.


The same process is applied to accelerate and deaccelerate.





How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project


We use the NASA´s Eyes to simulate our game with the most recent studies in the higlights session.

https://eyes.nasa.gov/


For example, we add the Proxima Centauri b as on of the best planet to explore in the mission.

Also we use the Planetary Data System from NASA resources, to give us an idea of speeds and distances.



The Planetary Data System

https://pds.nasa.gov/



Warp Field Physics

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20140000851.pdf

To investigate and simulate the Warp Drive effect

Data & Resources

We use the following resources

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TSpP7SQYveXp6Sl7leYLK5414OfrtAGC/view?usp=sharing



Gravity assist


Bi-elliptic transfer


Hohmann transfer orbit


Mercury Vortex Engines


The Halo Drive


Using Black Holes to Transverse the Universe with Dr. David Kipping


Hindu Sanskrit Bhagavad-Gita


What is a Vimana?

Tags
#Simulator #SpaceShip #UnrealEngine #Videogame #Space
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.