AAWSAP DIRD, Antigravity for Aerospace Applications, March 2010

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(Reference 14) reported that a rough estimate indicates there is a very small
difference between 11 and 170. It is thus necessary to implement a coordinated
theoretical program to determine the value of 11 for all known forms of matter and
an experimental program to find materials that might possess anomalously large or
nonlinear properties that can be used to intensify time-varying gravitational fields.
Forward (Reference 14) also described an unsuccessful experimental attempt to find
materials that have the property of converting time-varying electromagnetic fields
into time-varying gravitational fields. This speculative property exploits the fact that
the magnetic and inertial moments are combined in an atom via the usual quantum
angular and spin momentum coupling. Other theoretical and experimental concepts
incorporating the use of rotating superconductors are reviewed by Hathaway
(Reference 69). Note in particular that Hathaway reviews the emerging
experimental observations of Martin Tajmar in which an apparent frame-dragging
effect is observed near super-cooled rotating rings as measured by ring laser gyros
and accelerometers. At the time of this writing these effects were being reported but
not yet independently confirmed.
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Antigravity via Negative Energy: The assessment provided in Reference 70
concludes that small amounts of negative energy are already made in the lab, but
one does not yet know there is access to larger amounts for extended periods of
time over extended spatial distributions for the purpose of producing antigravity. In
this regard, the following options for further exploration are proposed:
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Squeezed quantum vacuum generators (see Appendix A): A dedicated research
program to develop the two negative energy generator concepts described in
Reference 70 will need to be established in order to evolve state-of-the-art
quantum optics technology towards producing higher magnitudes of negative
energy as well as special techniques required to separate out any positive energy
fluxes that accompany the negative energy fluxes. Specifically, the Rabeau et al.
(Reference 71, 72) and Ries et al. (Reference 73) experimental programs should
be followed as a template toward this goal. Quantum optics technology via high
power fiber lasers, resonators, amplifier stages, beam conditioning stages, and
so forth are rapidly advancing. So research should be conducted in parallel to
invent additional ways to produce negative energy via innovative quantum optics.
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Casimir effect: Even though the standard electromagnetic Casimir effect is feeble,
and thus not likely to contribute to an antigravity engineering program, there are
still a number of other electromagnetic and non-electromagnetic Casimir effects
described in Appendix A that require further study. These other Casimir effects
have not been explored with an eye toward testing them in the lab, and so there
could be important new information yet to be discovered.
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Moving Mirrors (a.k.a. the dynamical Casimir effect; see Appendix A): Even
though this concept is too feeble to produce any useful flux of negative energy,
the observable effects due to the change in the boundary conditions (for
example, moving mirrors/cavity walls) of quantum fields provide crucial
information on the quantum vacuum at the macroscopic level. Theoretical and
laboratory efforts are underway to understand the dissipative effects of vacuum
fluctuations (Reference 74,75). This dissipation mechanism should induce
irradiation of photons, a phenomenon also known as the dynamical Casimir
effect. This can be understood both as the creation of particles under non-
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