AAWSAP DIRD, Advanced Space Propulsion Based on Vacuum (Spacetime Metric) Engineering, March 2010

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components of potential utility involve very-small-wavelength, high-frequency
field structures and thus resist facile engineering solutions. With regard to
perturbation of the spacetime metric, the required energy densities predicted
by present theory exceed by many orders of magnitude values achievable with
existing engineering techniques. Nonetheless, one can examine the
possibilities and implications under the expectation that as science and its
attendant derivative technologies mature, felicitous means may yet be found
that permit the exploitation of the enormous, as-yet-untapped potential of
engineering so-called "empty space," the vacuum.
This paper introduces the underlying mathematical platform for investigating
spacetime structure, the metric tensor approach. It then outlines the
attendant physical effects that derive from alterations in the spacetime
structure. Finally, the paper examines these effects as they would be exhibited
in the presence of advanced aerospace craft technologies based on spacetime
modification.
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