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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. 7 …Observe in Equation (1) that the force of gravity acting on a small test mass becomes…
  • p. 8 …region between the small ultradense ball and the Earth will thus be in free fall. Another…
  • p. 12 …In summary, these forces are equivalent to gravitational forces, which can be used to cancel the…
  • p. 16 …Two simple approaches can be used to determine the negative energy density required to counteract the…
  • p. 22 …Equation (20) can be integrated to find the evolution of the dark energy density, p,1c…
  • p. 25 …Casimir device are very small, it appears that Fcce,p will be very difficult, if not…
  • p. 27 …An experiment to test this prediction on such a small scale is too difficult to control…
  • p. 30 …small quantities. The technologies used for producing negative energy are nascent, and so it will be…
  • p. 31 …At the time of this writing these effects were being reported but not yet independently confirmed…
  • p. 38 …This effect is known to be exceedingly small. However, recent theoretical and technological developments suggest that…
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