Breakthrough propulsion physics workshop preliminary results

Millis, Marc G.

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“…Regarding the third project, in 1996, a team of (USA) government, university and industry researchers proposed a program to seek the ultimate breakthroughs in space transportation: propulsion that requires no propellant mass, propulsion that can approach and, if possible, circumvent light speed, and breakthrough methods of energy production to power such devices [76]. In the period 1996-2004, NASA funded the Breakthrough Physics Program, managed by Marc Millis (open access reports are [76][77][78]), and the very final report was documented in a book of 740 pages [79].…”

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Inertial Propulsion Devices: A Review

Provatidis

2024

Eng

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Google Scholar produces about 278 hits for the term “inertial propulsion”. If patents are also included, the number of hits increases to 536. This paper discusses, in a critical way, some characteristic aspects of this controversial topic. The review starts with the halteres of athletes in the Olympic games of ancient times and then continues with some typical devices which have been developed and/or patented from the second quarter of the twentieth century to the present day.

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Inertial Propulsion Devices: A Review

Provatidis

2024

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Survey of Long-Term Technology Forecasting Methodologies

Oliver¹,

Balko²,

Seraphin³

et al. 2002

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Advances in the proposed electromagnetic zero-point field theory of inertia

Haisch

Rueda

Puthoff

1998

34th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

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A NASA-funded research effort has been underway at the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center in Palo Alto and at California State University in Long Beach to develop and test a recently published theory that Newton's equation of motion can be derived from Maxwell's equations of electrodynamics as applied to the zero-point field (ZPF) of the quantum vacuum. In this ZPF-inertia theory, mass is postulated to be not an intrinsic property of matter but rather a kind of electromagnetic drag force (which temporarily is a place holder for a more general vacuum quantum fields reaction effect) that proves to be acceleration dependent by virtue of the spectral characteristics of the ZPF. The theory proposes that interactions between the ZPF and matter take place at the level of quarks and electrons, hence would account for the mass of a composite neutral particle such as the neutron. An effort to generalize the exploratory study of Haisch, Rueda and Puthoff (1994) into a proper relativistic formulation has been successful. Moreover the principle of equivalence implies that in this view gravitation would also be an effect originated in the quantum vacuum along the lines proposed by Sakharov (1968). With regard to exotic propulsion we can definitively rule out one speculatively hypothesized mechanism: matter possessing negative inertial mass, a concept originated by Bondi (1957) is shown to be logically impossible. On the other hand, the linked ZPF-inertia and ZPFgravity concepts open the conceptual possibility of manipulation of inertia and gravitation, since both are postulated to be vacuum phenomena. It is hoped that this will someday translate into actual technological potential, especially with respect to spacecraft propulsion and future interstellar travel capability. A key question is whether the proposed ZPF-matter interactions generating the phenomenon of mass might involve one or more resonances. This is presently under investigation.

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Breakthrough propulsion physics workshop preliminary results

Cited by 3 publications

References 29 publications

Inertial Propulsion Devices: A Review

Inertial Propulsion Devices: A Review

Survey of Long-Term Technology Forecasting Methodologies

Advances in the proposed electromagnetic zero-point field theory of inertia

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