How Do You Do That? (Go through solid earth, that is.)
History of ASP | The Banzai Institute | Research and Development | The Theory Explained | Subterranean's ASP System
Subterranean Cruise Line ships utilize the most technologically advanced ship propulsion (ASP) system available on all of its ships. The ASP systems allows us to travel with ease through the earth’s solid surface and into the underlying layers of the earth, with no effect on the ships or its passengers, and as if gliding through the air.
It is exhilarating. It is fascinating. It is memorable.
It all started with an experiment in 1938, conducted by Masado Banzai, his wife and two of his colleagues, Emilio Lazardo and Toichi Hikita. The late 1930s was an exciting period for physicists, as particle accelerators were beginning to bloom with the invention of the cyclotron by Ernest 0. Lawrence, and physicists such as Hideki Yukawa (a colleague of Toichi Hikita) were developing quantum field theory to describe the nature of matter and the forces that bind it together.
Unfortunately, work on the experiment was curtailed after a tragic explosion killed Masado Banzai and his wife. After seeing his parents killed, young Buckaroo Banzai vowed to continue his parents' work when he grew up. He went on to become a world-renowned authority on particle physics, quantum mechanics, trianary bi-dimensionional reductionalism, as well as a neurosurgeon, a rock musician, and comic book hero.
TopTo fulfill a need of the scholarly community for greater continuity of research, Dr. Banzai founded the prestigious Banzai Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Strategic Information in 1972 to support scientific endeavors in many fields that would otherwise go unfunded. Its 112-acre East Coast campus, located an hour from New York City, in Holland Township, New Jersey, quickly became a haven for scholars of all disciplines, but particularly the sciences.
The Institute is a not-for-profit corporation, supported primarily by royalties donated by its researchers and from commercial applications of Institute-sponsored work, such as Subterranean’s application in its cruise ships. Many top scientists work at the Institute, including Toichi Hikita and Hideki Yukawa.
The ASP developed as a result of research at the Banzai Institute. In 1982 Dr. Banzai performed an experiment using a heavily modified Ford F-350 pickup truck powered by a jet engine and capable of exceeding Mach 1. The truck was also equipped with a device, based on his parents’early research, called an “oscillation overthruster”, which he and his associates hoped would allow it to drive through solid matter. The experiment was a rousing success, as stunned onlookers watched the truck veer off course and enter a mountain, emerging several miles away in a neighboring valley.
At the press conference afterwards, Dr. Banzai explained to the astonished reporters, scientists and military officers how the oscillation overthruster works, allowing him to drive into the mountain.
“As you know, matter is composed mostly of empty space, right down to the quantum level: within an atom, most of that atom's total volume consists of relatively vast spaces between the subatomic particles, although the particles do remain tethered to each other by electromagnetic (EM) force. Early quantum theory suggests that EM force may consist of "virtual photons" that have no mass and naturally fill such otherwise empty spaces.”
“The Banzai Institute’s oscillation overthruster powered two colliding beams, one stream of electrons and one of positrons, which annihilate each other, creating intermediate vector bosons as a byproduct. The vector bosons are then magnetically collected and focused into another beam, now capable of imparting mass to those pesky virtual photons, thereby weakening the EM force that binds matter together. Everything reverts to normal pretty quickly, but a fast-moving object, such as the Jet Car, can pass through the affected matter before the window closes.”
We all learned in school that atoms hold themselves together because protons in the center (nucleus) have a positive electric charge which attracts the negatively charged electrons which fly around the outside of the atom. This force, which acts between the electrons and protons, is called the "electromagnetic force." You can feel the electromagnetic force when you use a magnet, or when you slap your hand against a wall. But you may not have asked yourself how the electrons and protons "feel" each other across the empty space that separates them.
According to quantum field theory, as initially developed by Yukawa and many others in the 1930s (when Dr. Banzai’s father first began his experiments), the forces between particles are created by exchanges of other particles. The electromagnetic force is carried by the exchange of particles called "virtual photons." In other words, the empty space between the electrons and protons in normal material is full of virtual photons. Furthermore, if virtual photons fail to travel all the way between electrons and the nucleus, atoms would no longer be prevented from passing through each other.
Subterranean's ASP system is comprised of a bank of multiple oscillation overthrusters that produce colliding beams of electrons and positrons. These, in turn, produce copious quantities of intermediate vector bosons that are separated and focused with superconducting magnets. The beams are then aimed directly ahead of the ship, so that they intersect and are focused on whatever target we want to travel through, be it a beach, cliff, or waterfront.
Inside the target, spontaneous symmetry breaking imparts mass to the photons, reducing the range of the electromagnetic force to far less than a quadrillionth of a centimeter. From this small region a shock wave of broken symmetry propagates outward. Behind the shock wave matter interacts only weakly, allowing the ship to freely move through the earth, powered by three turbojet engines in the stern of the ship. The effect surrounds the ship to allow free passage before the material reverts to its normal state.
Thanks to many refinements of Subterranean's incredible oscillation overthruster technology, our ships can travel at a leisurely pace for sightseeing or at higher speeds for travel between destinations. Travel on the ocean's surface utilizes gas-turbine engines for power generation to turn conventional screws.