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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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13. Conclusion
The purpose of this study is the question as to whether negative mass might exist, and
if negative mass propulsion is possible at all. It is unlikely to be possible in the fashion
speculated by Forward [13] (but also see Winterberg [17]), where a negative mass is
chasing a positive mass without the expenditure of any energy. Rather, it might
perhaps be possible through the existence of an ultra-light form of matter with the
tensile strength of ordinary matter on a macroscopic scale where positive matter is
bound to negative matter, as happens with Dirac spinor particles on a microscopic scale.
This is the speculative existence of macroscopic bodies approaching zero rest mass, of
importance for space flight because such matter would greatly reduce its energy
requirements.
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