Space Colonization Wiki

The biggest issue with interstellar colonization is propulsion technologies. Warp drive may be theoretically possible but would require so much energy that you would have to annihilate Jupiter to power a single trip. Wormholes would require negative mass exotic matter which hasn't been proven to exist and most likely doesn't. At sub-luminal speeds we are talking about thousands of years to make it to the closest star unless we can found a propulsion technology that can accelerate the exhaust to a large percentage of the speed of light. The only such device I have found is the Beamed Core Anti-Matter Rocket which has an exhaust velocity of 100,000,000 m/s. However, it requires massive amounts of anti-matter. Currently anti-matter can only be produced at about a 0.01% efficiency but 50% is theoretically possible. To power a single ship to a single star in only a 100 years, would take over 100 years of producing anti-matter with a Dyson sphere like ring around the Sun, producing 3 exawatts of power. It would be a tremendous undertaking.

Anyways, this is just what I have found during my own research for a science fiction universe. Please check out my blog, blog.fractalfederation.com, I'd love to collaborate. Fractalfederation (talk) 01:44, February 1, 2016 (UTC)