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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-1004-004), dated 6 April 2010, was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency under its Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It is one of a series of advanced technology reports from FY 2009. It reviews the general relativity physics of traversable wormholes and flat-faced "stargate" solutions for faster-than-light travel. It also covers the exotic negative energy these would need, proposed lab methods for generating it such as the Casimir effect and squeezed vacuum, and the constraints involved.
UNCLASSIFIED/ ;raA 8FFI1illlt '11815 8HLV • • Figure 1. Intra-Universe Wormhole as a Hyperspace Shortcut Through Conventional Space Traversable wormholes are creatures of classical general relativity theory allowing for very comfortable travel through the Cosmic Neighborhood. But from the viewpoint of modern physics, the Cosmic Neighborhood can encompass other universes, other space dimensions, and other times beyond the four-dimensional spacetime realm. Mankind has certainly not discovered all of the universe's facets and will need to continue to construct new experiments and technology in order to verify (or not) these undiscovered facets. Wormholes can possess normal or backward (in special cases) motion through time and normal or nonexistent gravitational stresses on space travelers, and their entry/exit openings (or throats) are spherically shaped, flat, cubic shaped, polyhedral shaped, generic shaped, and so forth. Why consider wormholes for travel through space, time, and other dimensions? All standard space propulsion engineering is based on Newton's three laws of motion, which is dependent on the expenditure of propellant to induce thrust- generating momentum transfer on a spacecraft. Many investigators have proposed interstellar propulsion schemes based on a variety of nuclear (fission, fusion, and pulsed) rockets, electric (ion or plasma) rockets, matter- antimatter annihilation rockets, solar or laser sails, fusion or laser ramjets, interstellar ion scoops, beamed energy propulsion (sails, rockets, and ramjets), and so forth. Many of these modes either have been experimentally tested at one time or another in our recent history or remain as theoretical proposals, vi UNCLASSIFIED/ /f81il errI@Il!IL ""E one I
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