Alien Investigation: Searching for the Truth about UFOs and Aliens

Alien Investigation: Searching for the Truth about UFOs and Aliens — page 5
Interview physicist Stanton Friedman Physicist Stanton Friedman worked for high tech corporations including General Electric General Motors and McDonnell Douglas for many years But in 1958 an interest in UFOs took root Since that time Friedman has studied and written about the scientific likelihood of extraterrestrial visitors Do the laws of physics allow for the possibility of long distance space travel The laws of physics have nothing to do with the possibility of fight to nearby or distant stars There are roughly two thousand stars within only 55 light years of Earth One light year is equal to 6 trillion miles 9 7 trillion kilometers About 5 percent are similar to the sun and some are a billion or more years older than the sun The key to traveling to the stars is the development of advanced technology And that requires lots of money talented people and time A person couldn't fly from New York New York to San Francisco California in 1900 because the technology for aight hadn't been developed not because it was against the laws of physics We did learn a lot along the way Some people think that because physicist Albert Einstein said things can't go faster than the speed of light the minimum round trip time for a journey to a star 40 light years away would be eighty years Not true Einstein also said time slows down for things moving close to the speed of light At only 99.99 percent of the speed of light one could go 37 light years in six months So yes transportation to the stars is feasible