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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 29 March 2010 and prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency, is one of a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2009 under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It uses a metric tensor approach from general relativity to catalog the physical effects of engineering spacetime, such as altered time, mass, light speed and antigravity. It concludes that such concepts, including warp drives, are consistent with physics, but that the energy requirements remain daunting.
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UNCLASSIFIED/ ,'f81il 8fflil.l1k WliiC ODIi Y Contents Advanced Space Propulsion Based on Vacuum (Spacetime Metric) Engineering .... iii Preface and Introduction .......................................................................................iii I. Spacetime Modification - Metric Tensor Approach .............................................. 1 II. Physical Effects as a Function of Metric Tensor Coefficients .............................. 2 Time Interval, Frequency, Energy ...................................................................... 3 Spatial Interval .............................................................................................. 4 Velocity of Light in Spacetime-Altered Regions .............................................. 4 Refractive Index Modeling ............................................................................. 5 Effective Mass in Spacetime-Altered Regions ................................................. 6 Gravity/ Antigravity "Forces" ......................................................................... 6 III. Significance of Physical Effects Applicable to Advanced Aerospace Craft Technologies as a Function of Metric Tensor Coefficients ....................................... 6 Time Alteration .................................................................................................. 6 Spatial Alteration ............................................................................................... 8 Velocity of Light/Craft in Spacetime-Altered Regions ........................................ 8 Refractive Index Effects ..................................................................................... 9 Effective Mass in Spacetime-Altered Regions ..................................................... 9 Gravity/ Antigravity/Propulsion Effects ............................................................ 10 IV. Discussion ...................................................................................................... 11 Figures Figure 1. Blueshifting of Infrared Heat Power Spectrum ........................................ 7 Figure 2. Light-Bending in a Spacetime-Altered Reigon ......................................... 9 Figure 3. Alcubierre Warp Drive Metric Structure ................................................. 11 Tables Table 1. Metric Effects on Physical Processes in an Altered Spacetime as Interpreted by a Remote (Unaltered Spacetime) Observer ....................... 4 ii UNCLASSIFIED/ ;(FQ!il 8FFI81Ak H!H!! 8HLY
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