Documents / Report

Defense Intelligence Reference Document Antigravity For Aerospace Applications

Defense Intelligence Agency · 44 pages · text from the file's own layer

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

Not linked to a story yet.

About this file

Report, from the dia collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 44 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.