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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-1003-018), dated 30 March 2010, was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency as part of its FY 2009 Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It reviews theoretical approaches to antigravity for aerospace propulsion, drawing on Newtonian physics, general relativity, cosmological dark energy and quantum vacuum effects. The report notes that no current technology can actively control gravity and that many concepts are far from practicable engineering.
UNCLASSIFIED/ }F9A. 9FFlil.11k WE&i a••k>/ Appendix A STATIC RADIAL ELECTRIC & MAGNETIC FIELDS It is beyond the scope of this report to include all the technical configurations by which one can generate static, radially-dependent electric or magnetic fields. However, there remains the problem of engineering these fields to produce a borderline exotic energy state because classical electromagnetic theory states that every observer will see a non-negative energy density that is oc £ 2 + B2 , where the electric field (E) and magnetic field (B) strengths are measured in any observer's reference frame. It is not known how to increase the tension in these fields using current physics, but some new physics may provide an answer. This technical problem must be left for future investigation. SQUEEZED QUANTUM VACUUM Substantial theoretical and experimental work has shown that in many quantum systems the limits to measurement precision imposed by the quantum vacuum zero- point fluctuations (ZPF) can be breached by decreasing the noise in one observable ( or measurable quantity) at the expense of increasing the noise in the conjugate observable; at the same time the variations in the first observable, say the energy, are reduced below the ZPF such that the energy becomes "negative." "Squeezing" is thus the control of quantum fluctuations and corresponding uncertainties, whereby one can squeeze/reduce the variance of one (physically important) observable quantity provided the variance in the (physically unimportant) conjugate variable is stretched/increased. The squeezed quantity possesses an unusually low variance, meaning less variance than would be expected on the basis of the equipartition theorem. One can in principle exploit quantum squeezing to extract energy from one place in the ordinary vacuum at the expense of accumulating excess energy elsewhere (Reference 21). The squeezed state of the electromagnetic field is a primary example of a quantum field that has negative energy density and negative energy flux. Such a state became a physical reality in the laboratory as a result of the nonlinear-optics technique of "squeezing"-that is, of moving some of the quantum-fluctuations of laser light out of the cos[rn(t- z/c)] part of the beam and into the sin[ro(t - z/c)] part (Reference 77- 82). 15 The observable that gets squeezed will have its fluctuations reduced below the vacuum ZPF. The act of squeezing transforms the phase space circular noise profile characteristic of the vacuum into an ellipse, whose semi major and semi minor axes are given by unequal quadrature uncertainties ( of the quantized electromagnetic field harmonic oscillator operators). This applies to coherent states in general, and the usual vacuum is also a coherent state with eigenvalue zero. As this ellipse rotates about the origin with angular frequency, ro, these unequal quadrature uncertainties manifest themselves in the electromagnetic field oscillator energy by periodic occurrences, which are separated by one quarter cycle, of both smaller and larger fluctuations compared to the unsqueezed vacuum. Morris and Thorne (Reference 21) and Caves (Reference 83) point out that if one squeezes the vacuum-that is, if one puts vacuum rather than laser light into the input port of a squeezing device-then one gets at the output an electromagnetic field with 15 (,, is the angular frequency of light, tis time, and z denotes the z-axis direction of beam propagation. 29 UNCLASSIFIED//P81t 81"1"1!111it 1!191! Slit I
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