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Defense Intelligence Reference Document Negative Mass Propulsion

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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document from the Defense Intelligence Agency is dated 3 January 2011. It was produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program as part of a series of advanced technology reports. The report asks whether negative mass exists and whether it could be used for propulsion. It concludes that one route might be an ultra-light form of matter that could have gathered at the Moon's center. Reaching it would take a tunnel dug with thermonuclear shape charges.

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Quantum mechanics predicts for each harmonic oscillator the zero-point energy
(1/2)hm, which has to be multiplied with the volume element in frequency space
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f(cu)dw= cons! x co'dcu. (58)
Now (58) turns out to be just the only spectrum that is Lorentz invariant. But the
spectrum (58) is also the only one which does not lead to a friction force on a charged
particle moving through an electromagnetic spectrum with this frequency dependence.
This means that special relativity is a consequence of quantum mechanics, leading to
the zero point vacuum energy, and can be interpreted by saying that the zero-point
vacuum energy "generates" the Minkowski space-time.
7. Dynamic Interpretation of Lorentz Invariance
A cut-off at the Planck frequency generates a distinguished reference system in which
the zero-point energy spectrum is isotropic and at rest. In this distinguished reference
system, the scalar potential from which the forces are to be derived satisfies the
inhomogeneous wave equation:
(59)
where p(r,t) are the sources of this field. For a body in static equilibrium at rest in the
distinguished reference system for which the sources are those of the body itself one
has
V' ~ --4np(r). (60)
If set into absolute motion with the velocity v along x-axis, the coordinates of the
reference system at rest with the moving body are obtained by the Galilei
transformation:
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