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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document from the Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 6 April 2010, is one in a series of FY 2009 advanced technology reports produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) program. It reviews the physics of zero-point field energy in the quantum vacuum and proposed schemes for extracting it, including the Casimir effect, Forward's vacuum-fluctuation battery, and resonant dielectric spheres. It notes that no practicable extraction technique has been demonstrated in the laboratory.
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UNCLASSIFIED//FOR QFFICJa ■ YEE a••b>/ fields, including astrophysics and elementary particle physics. Clever experimental approaches should be developed to explore the adiabatic Casimir effect. • There are numerous potential ways in which the ground state of the vacuum electromagnetic field might be engineered for use in MEMS and NEMS applications. • Dirac vacuum decay via external (non-critical) magnetic fields requires further evaluation, and it should become possible to experimentally test this in the laboratory within two to five years. • Theoretical and laboratory studies of the dual QCD vacuum have been underway for over 20 years. The progress in experimental particle physics is such that one gains an order of magnitude in the resolution (that is, energy) of elementary particle structures roughly every decade. It is hoped that the commissioning of the Large Hadron Collider will lead to higher resolution probing of the dual QCD vacuum structure, and help to determine whether there are deeper grand unified and/or Higgs vacuum structures residing within quarks. Future accelerator experiments should be designed to explore Rafelski and MUiier's and Gogohia's proposal to extract energy from the "melted" QCD vacuum. Acknowledgements The author wishes to thank colleagues H. E. Puthoff (EarthTech, Int'I), V. Teofila (Lockheed Martin), B. Haisch (ManyOne Networks), L. J. Nickisch (Northwest Research Assoc.), A. Rueda (California State University-Long Beach), D. C. Cole (Boston University), M. !bison (Inst. for Advanced Studies at Austin), S. Little (EarthTech Int'I), and M. Little (EarthTech Int'I), for their technical contributions to this report. We also thank J. Newmeyer (Lockheed Martin), E. H. Allen (Lockheed Martin), T. W. Kephart (Vanderbilt Univ.), and P. C. W. Davies (Arizona State Univ.) for their very useful input. 41 UNCLASSIFIED//F8~ 8FFI&I.«1b WliF tt••b>/
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