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Defense Intelligence Reference Document Traversible Wormholes Stargates And Negative Energy

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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-1004-004), dated 6 April 2010, was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency under its Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It is one of a series of advanced technology reports from FY 2009. It reviews the general relativity physics of traversable wormholes and flat-faced "stargate" solutions for faster-than-light travel. It also covers the exotic negative energy these would need, proposed lab methods for generating it such as the Casimir effect and squeezed vacuum, and the constraints involved.

  • p. 20 …Squeezed Quantum Vacuum Substantial theoretical and experimental work has shown that in many quantum systems the…
  • p. 29 …However, future work will be necessary to elucidate whether the various quantum field analogs of the…
  • p. 32 …However, further work is needed to establish whether Equation (10) is the correct quantifier to use…
  • p. 33 …Suffice it to say that future work is necessary to scale down the predicted lensing parameters…
  • p. 36 …space and in the laboratory, but further work is needed to downscale astronomical techniques for use…
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