Check out my books on light-sails.
 Light-sail spacecraft are somewhere in the exotic between chemical rockets and concepts like warp-drives and wormhole shortcuts through space-time.
 Oddly enough, light-sails of the kinds I have conceptually develop experience negative drive. The faster they go the greater is their ship-frame acceleration perhaps infinite vectors and Lorentz factors.
 To see how, consider browsing my related intellectual property.
 Some of my light-sail books are about 2 million pages in length. So these books are all only available as down-loadable pdfs.

THE MONOLITHIC CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT-SAIL.
 by James M Essig
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 The Monolithic Christmas Tree Light-Sail Expanded Edition
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 by James M Essig
 The Monolithic Christmas Tree Light-Sail. Volume 2.
by James Essig
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 The Monolithic Christmas Tree Light-Sail. Volume 3.
 by James Essig
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 The Monolithic Christmas Tree Light Sail. Volume 4
 by James Essig
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 The Monolithic Christmas Tree Light-Sail. Volume 5.
 by James Essig
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 The Monolithic Christmas Tree Light-Sail. Volume 6.
 by James Essig
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 The Monolithic Christmas Tree Light-Sail. Volume 7.
 by James Essig
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