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Defense Intelligence Reference Document Antigravity For Aerospace Applications

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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-1003-018), dated 30 March 2010, was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency as part of its FY 2009 Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It reviews theoretical approaches to antigravity for aerospace propulsion, drawing on Newtonian physics, general relativity, cosmological dark energy and quantum vacuum effects. The report notes that no current technology can actively control gravity and that many concepts are far from practicable engineering.

  • p. 8 …Rockets like the Air Force DC-XA can hover above the ground for a time that…
  • p. 10 …If the current (I) in the wire increases with time, then the magnetic field B inside…
  • p. 11 …the torus, 'Pis the time rate-of-change of the mass current flowing through the pipe…
  • p. 13 …x3 -= space coordinates and .0' = time coordinate. The Schwarzschild metric is: ds7 = -(1 - 2GM/c7r)c7dt…
  • p. 15 …46), violations of the second law of thermodynamics (Reference 47,48), and time machines (Reference 22…
  • p. 16 …In this case the time-time component of the Ricci curvature tensor (R_uv) is given…
  • p. 17 …the standard spherically symmetric spacetime (or Schwarzschild) coordinate system (l.r,8,cp) in which time…
  • p. 18 …the right- hand-side of Equation (14), which has become widespread practice in modern times, then…
  • p. 20 …Because A is a constant, the vacuum energy is a constant (that is, time independent). This…
  • p. 21 …To consider other possibilities one evaluates the time evolution of the general relativistic conservation law for…
  • p. 22 UNCLASSIFIED//F81il 8FFI1il.t.k Wfili &,.kY the efficacy of using Type Ia supernovae as a…
  • p. 26 …the self-force (times dipole size) is exactly equal to the gravitational equivalent of the electrostatic…
  • p. 27 …0 and the total energy of the system is zero at all times regardless of speed…
  • p. 28 …1) one part from a2(w)E2 due to the effect of external time-dependent electric…
  • p. 29 …in a time that is too short to deliver the required thrust to the vehicle. Therefore…
  • p. 30 …The technologies used for producing negative energy are nascent, and so it will be some time…
  • p. 31 …At the time of this writing these effects were being reported but not yet independently confirmed…
  • p. 34 …the expense of increasing the noise in the conjugate observable; at the same time the variations…
  • p. 37 …product space), where ~H is the real line defining the time dimension for this particular product…
  • p. 38 …If the acceleration varies with time, the conductor will generally emit or absorb photons (that is…
  • p. 40 …R., The Large-Scale Structure of Space-Time, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1973, pp. 88-91…
  • p. 41 …S., and Yurtsever, U., "Wormholes, time machines, and the weak energy conditions," Physical Review Letters, Vol…
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where V2 is the standard Laplace differential operator. The le~-hand-side of Equation
(8) is the gravitational potential. Integrating Equation (8) once over a region of space
exterior to a ball (or thin spherical shell) of rest-energy density to obtain
(9)
where the standard spherically symmetric spacetime (or Schwarzschild) coordinate
system (l.r,8,cp) in which time 1, radial space coordinate r, and angular space coordinates
(8,cp) have their usual meaning is used.
The second approach (case b) can be derived by recalling that in the exterior
Schwarzschild spacetime around a central mass M (a ball or thin spherical shell) is
(10)
Since the definition is given that x =lv.J-xi,i,(r)I, then perform the radial derivative of
Equation (10) and again arrive at Equation (9).
Since from special relativity M = E/c2 (for a given rest-energy E), a negative energy
state is identical to a negative mass state (Reference 50). Thus the mass Min Equation
(9) can be replaced with the negative energy density -pE* = -pc2 = -Mc2/V by using the
volume (V=4rrr'-i5r) of a thin spherical shell of radius rand thickness Or, and rearrange
quantities to solve for pc* to get the final result:
,
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i = 4rr,G0r
-(t.05x!O")
~ 8r (Jim'),
( 11)
where x is now the acceleration due to gravity near the Earth's surface. If one desires
to use other geometries (for example, torus, cylinder, prism, cone, and pyramid)
instead of a thin spherical shell, then Equation (11) will admit minor numerical
adjustments to accommodate the relevant geometrical factors associated with different
geometrical volumes. Equation ( 11) gives the negative energy density required to
generate a repulsive gravitational force that counteracts the Earth's gravity field from
the surface all the way up to LEO (since x in LEO is only a few percent smaller than on
the surface). Any realistic value that one chooses for the bubble wall thickness .Sr will
give a negative energy density that will always be on the order of the equivalent
negative energy density of a dwarf star or neutron star. The technical challenge to
implement this kind of antigravity, however, is daunting.
In the next section the case of a cosmological antigravity that is generated by a form of
matter having a positive energy density and negative pressure is discussed.
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