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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document from the Defense Intelligence Agency is dated 2 April 2010 and was produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It is one of a series of advanced technology reports from FY 2009. It reviews general relativistic warp drives, the cosmological constant, Casimir energy and extra space dimensions. It proposes that dark energy may come from higher dimensions and that controlling those dimensions could one day make a warp drive possible.
UNCLASSIFIED/ fF8R 8FFICl1f1k Wli& arJk>J It is worthwhile to expand more on the concept of what we mean by adjusting the radius of the extra dimension. 7.1 ADJUSTING HIGHER DIMENSIONS FOR PROPULSIONS Figure 4 should assist in the visualization of what a higher dimensional space might look like. In this 1-dimensional example one can see that all points have an associated higher dimension. One assumes that generally the radius of the extra dimension is fixed. It is this fixed radius which generates the observed dark energy density and is responsible for the homogeneity in the observed expansion of the universe. If one were to locally adjust the higher dimensional radius then the dark energy density would also change locally. More specifically, if one were to adjust the radius of the extra dimension in the direct vicinity of a spacecraft, then the dark energy density would also change only in the vicinity of the spacecraft, as would the expansion of space. It is important at this point to appreciate that globally, the universe would continue to expand at the rate we observe today, but that only in the proximity of the spacecraft would space be "stimulated" to expand at some modified rate. Figure S. Artist's Conception of a Futuristic Warp Drive Spacecraft. By locally adjusting the size of the extra space dimension, the spacecraft is able to generate the necessary warp bubble required to surpass the light speed barrier. Of course, obvious questions present themselves. Can one really assume that a higher dimension is circular? Also, if dark energy is responsible for the expansion of space, can we assume that it can somehow be used to contract space, and not just expand it? 16 UNCLASSIFIED/,/FOR OFFIClllk Wli& 8PJLY
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