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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.
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UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIO k YEE a••k>/ as they see themselves depart on their journey. This is no longer recognized in classical general relativity physics as a time paradox issue. It is very easy to build a time machine, given a traversable wormhole. But time travel via wormhole is beyond the scope of this paper. Suffice it to say that classical general relativity theory is seriously infested with time machines; the theory both allows for and demands time travel in order to preserve self-consistency of dynamic spacetime solutions for just about every problem ever studied. Implementation of FTL interstellar travel via traversable wormholes generally requires the engineering of spacetime into very specialized local geometries. Analysis of these via the general relativistic field equation, plus the resultant source matter equations of state, demonstrates that such geometries require the use of "exotic" matter in order to produce the requisite FTL spacetime modification. Exotic matter is generally defined by general relativity physics to be matter that possesses (renormalized) negative energy density (sometimes negative stress-tension = outward pressure, aka gravitational repulsion or antigravity). This term is very misunderstood and misapplied by the non- general-relativity community. This misconception can be cleared up by defining what negative energy is and where it can be found in nature and by reviewing the proposed experimental concepts for generating negative energy in the laboratory. In addition, it has been claimed that FTL spacetimes are not plausible because exotic matter violates the general relativistic energy conditions. However, this has been shown to be a spurious issue. The identification, magnitude, and production of exotic matter are seen as key technical challenges, however. FTL spacetimes also possess features that challenge the notions of causality, and quantum effects allegedly place constraints on them. These issues are reviewed and summarized, and an assessment on the present state of their resolution is provided. viii UNCLASSIFIED/ ,<EiOAt OEiEil&l11J:k WliF &••LY
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