Defense Intelligence Reference Document Warp Drive Dark Energy And The Manipulation Of Extra Dimensions

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understanding and experimentation with warp drive technology. To understand how,
first discuss an analogy with energy w > 1.
In a handful of labs scattered around the country, petawatt lasers are being built and
tested. These are lasers of profound capability, able to generate short laser pulses of
intensity>> 1015 W/m 2, with peak focused power densities of>> 10 27 W/m3, and
energy densities of>> 10 16 J/m 3 . If it were possible to construct an exotic device
whose energy output had 1i· < 1, then using calculations identical to those to generate
Table 3, it would seem straightforward to show that the energy density produced by an
analogous dark energy laser would translate into a local expansion of space
corresponding to Vwarr= 10-13 or ~ 10-s m/s for every meter of space that the laser
travels. It may be possible to construct an experiment that could measure the modified
expansion of space along the length of such a laser to test the predictions of this paper.
7.6 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TECHNOLOGY
Although a practical warp drive could be many years away from realization, there are a
number of technological developments that may, in fact, be necessary in order to allow
prototype experiments to begin. First, a more complete understanding of dark energy is
of paramount importance. As mentioned earlier, dark energy contributes approximately
70 percent of the overall energy density of the universe, and is responsible for the
expansion of space. As one acquires deeper understanding of this energy, attempts to
generate dark energy in the lab would no doubt be a critical component to a working
warp drive.
Other crucial developments include determining whether extra dimension are, in fact,
real. Once this has been determined with absolute certainty, the role of extra
dimensions and their relationship with the universe that we are more familiar with will
become a more serious focus of scientific research and attention.
As has been discussed, the stabilization of the extra dimensions and the accelerated
expansion of the remaining four dimensions can be realized via the Casimir energy. The
acceleration of the 3-dimensional subspace is a naturally occurring phenomenon which
occurs when the extra dimensions are stabilized.
An important feature of the higher dimensional model is the dependence of the dark
energy density on the size of the extra dimensions. In models with large extra
dimensions, the interaction of the graviton KK tower with the Standard Model fields are
suppressed by the higher dimensional Planck scale and the corresponding couplings are
inverse TeV in strength. This can be seen more clearly when we consider the expansion
of the metric tensor in models with large extra dimensions computed within linearized
gravity models:
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where the capital letter indices indicate summation over the higher dimensions, Mis
the modified Planck mass, 17MN corresponds to flat (Minkowski) spacetime and hM,v
corresponds to the bulk graviton fluctuations. The graviton interaction term in the
action is expressed by:
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