Defense Intelligence Reference Document Antigravity For Aerospace Applications

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COSMOLOGICAL ANTIGRAVITY
It turns out that there is already a naturally occurring antigravity force that acts
throughout the universe. Actually, this force acts upon the entire spacetime structure of
the universe, and it is called cosmological inflation. Cosmological inflation causes the
universe to expand at an ever accelerating rate. In what follows, the nature of this
cosmological antigravity force and its potential aerospace propulsion application is
examined.
Pressure as a Source of Gravity
Newtonian gravitation is modified in the case of a relativistic perfect-fluid (where p is the gravitational potential. It should be noted that the energy density and
pressure are kept as separate terms as opposed to Equations (7) and (8) in the
previous section. Equation (13) means that a gas of particles all moving at the same
speed II has an effective gravitational mass density of p(l + u2/c2). Thus, for example, a
radiation-dominated fluid generates a gravitational attraction twice as strong as one
predicted by Newtonian gravity theory according to Equation (13).
Vacuum Energy of Einstein's Cosmological Constant
A major consequence of the Einstein field equation is that pressure p becomes a source
of gravitational effects on an equal footing with the energy density p1.. One consequence
of the gravitational effects of pressure is that a negative-pressure equation of state that
achieves p1. + 3p < 0 in Equation (13) will produce gravitational repulsion (that is,
antigravity). The Einstein field equation that includes a cosmological constant A is:
(14)
where Gf"' is the Einstein curvature tensor. The A term, as it appears in Equation (14),
represents the curvature of empty space. Now if one moves this term over to the right-
hand-side of Equation (14), which has become widespread practice in modern times,
then
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