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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. 3 …4 Felber's Relativistic Antigravity Effect ................................................................ 7 Negative Energy-Induced Antigravity ................................................................ g Examples of Exotic or…
  • p. 9 …This is called the Lense-Thirring effect, or rotational frame dragging effect, in which rotating bodies…
  • p. 15 …squeezed vacuum electromagnetic (or other field) zero-point fluctuations (Reference 33). • Casimir effect; that is, the…
  • p. 24 …the electromagnetic vacuum state in a weak gravitational field is redshi~ed. This effect remains true…
  • p. 27 …At this distance, the effective total gravitational mass Md,r + UJ;1Jc2 = o and the self…
  • p. 28 …Interatomic forces can also be manipulated by means of external electromagnetic fields that can transform van…
  • p. 31 …Even though the standard electromagnetic Casimir effect is feeble, and thus not likely to contribute to…
  • p. 32 …One expects that a laboratory demonstration of the dynamical Casimir effect will occur before 2012. - Dirac…
  • p. 35 …GRAVITATIONALLY SQUEEZED ELECTROMAGNETIC ZERO-POINT FLUCTUATIONS A natural source of negative energy comes from the effect…
  • p. 36 …Analogs of the Casimir effect also exist for fields other than the electromagnetic field. When considering…
  • p. 37 …has the closest resemblance to the electromagnetic Casimir effect, the difference being that instead of imposing…
  • p. 38 …The parameters of the electromagnetic field oscillators (for example, their frequency distribution function) change with time…
  • p. 39 …2-5. 7 Heaviside, 0., "A Gravitational and Electromagnetic Analogy," The Electrician, Vol. 31, 1893, pp…
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geometries, which would provide an understanding of the negative energy
densities present in some regions in these geometries.
- Trapping and Storing Negative Energy: Ford and Roman (Reference 20) have
only superficially addressed this topic, and there is very little technical literature
that addresses it fully. A theoretical program to develop the physics and
technology of trapping and storing negative energy will need to be supported,
and such a program should be guided by the use of laboratory detectors such as
the one proposed in the previous section. However, it is the opinion of the author
that free-space negative energy sources appear to be a more desirable option for
producing antigravity than stored negative energy.
• Antigravity via Quantum Vacuum Zero-Point Fluctuation Force: Calloni et al.'s
experimental proposal reviewed in Section IV-A should be funded and performed by
a high quality laboratory.
• Antigravity via Nonretarded Quantum Interatomic Dispersion Force: Pinto's
experimental proposal reviewed in Section IV-B should be theoretically evaluated
prior to funding an experiment. This proposal does contain enough rigor and
credibility that it warrants a further look.
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