Defense Intelligence Reference Document Traversible Wormholes Stargates And Negative Energy

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matter, and many other fascinating properties (Reference 22-24, 26, 73-76).
Therefore, if the emergent spacetime/gravity approach turns out to be correct, then
there will likely be a direct consequence to the physics of traversable wormholes that
could dramatically alter the mechanism by which they are created and/or mitigate the
requirement for negative energy.
Until such new approaches are established and testable predictions published by their
proponents, one cannot speculate on how the physics of traversable wormholes will be
affected. Therefore, it is beneficial to stick to the outcome of the present study in terms
of quantum field theory and general relativity theory, and outline what needs to be
accomplished going forward in order to demonstrate a traversable wormhole in the lab.
Going forward toward the demonstration of a traversable wormhole will require the
following:
• Generating Negative Energy in the Lab: Our assessment concludes that we already
make small amounts of negative energy in the lab, but we do not yet know if we can
access larger amounts for extended periods of time over extended spatial
distributions for the purpose of engineering a traversable wormhole. In this regard
we propose the following options for further exploration.
• Squeezed quantum vacuum generators: A dedicated research program to develop
the two negative energy generator concepts described in Section 111-B-2 will need to
be established in order to evolve state-of-the-art quantum optics technology
towards producing higher magnitudes of negative energy as well as special
techniques required to separate out any positive energy fluxes that accompany the
negative energy fluxes. Specifically, the Rabeau et al. (Reference 48, 49) and Ries
et al. (Reference 50) experimental programs should be followed as a template
toward this goal. Quantum optics technology via high power fiber lasers, resonators,
amplifier stages, beam conditioning stages, etc., are rapidly advancing. So research
should be conducted in parallel to invent additional ways to produce negative energy
via innovative quantum optics.
• Casimir effect: Even though the standard electromagnetic Casimir effect is feeble,
and thus not likely to contribute to a traversable wormhole engineering program,
there are still a number of other electromagnetic and non-electromagnetic Casimir
effects described in Section 111-B-4 that require further study. These other Casimir
effects have not been explored with an eye toward testing them in the lab, and so
there could be important new information yet to be uncovered.
• Moving Mirrors (a.k.a. the dynamical Casimir effect): Even though this concept was
identified (Section 111-B-5) as being too feeble to produce any useful flux of negative
energy, the observable effects due to the change in the boundary conditions (e.g.,
moving mirrors/cavity walls) of quantum fields provide crucial information on the
quantum vacuum at the macroscopic level. Theoretical and laboratory efforts are
underway to understand the dissipative effects of vacuum fluctuations (Reference
77-78). This dissipation mechanism should induce irradiation of photons, a
phenomenon also known as the dynamical Casimir effect. This can be understood
both as the creation of particles under non-adiabatic changes in the boundary
conditions of quantum fields, or as classical parametric amplification with the zero-
point energy of a vacuum field mode as an input state. More recent developments
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