On the physical foundations of interstellar space travel

From the foreword by Dr. rer. pol. Erik Kolek This book is about the physical foundations of interstellar space travel. Interstellar space travel involves traveling between stars, such as between our sun and Proxima Centauri. Humanity, or rather its technologies, are still at the very beginning of the technological development series, and the same applies to the physical foundations. The latter must be listed and explained step by step in order to make traveling between the stars possible, at least in theory.

Erik Kolek is a scientist of business informatics, particularly information systems and enterprise modeling. He studied three degree courses: business administration and marketing with a focus on product and customer management at University of Applied Sciences Heilbronn. He has completed two master's degrees: international marketing and communication at University of Applied Sciences Heilbronn and economic science at the DistanceUniversity of Hagen. Erik Kolek received his doctorate in economic science (Dr. rer. pol.) from the University of Hildesheim in 2023. His doctoral thesis is entitled empirical studies of cooperation visualization in enterprises. In theoretical physics, he works on theories.