DIRD_13-DIRD_Warp_Drive_Dark_energy_and_the_Manipulation_of_Extra_Dimensions.pdf

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UNCLASSIFIED / /$@52O2EGEAM=6EOheec Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions Prepared by: (b)(3):10 USC 424 Defense Intelligence Agency Authors: (b)(6) Administrative Note COPYRIGHT WARNING: Further dissemination of the photographs in this publication is not authorized. This product is one in a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2009 under the Defense Intelligence Agency, [byey 10 USC 224 «dAdvanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. Comments or questions pertaining to this document should be addressed to |(b)(3):10 USC 424°(b)(6) ,…

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UNCLASSIFIED / s5OB-OEELGE ARSE ORY Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions Introduction If one is to realistically entertain the notion of interstellar exploration in timeframes of a human lifespan, a dramatic shift in the traditional approach to spacecraft propulsion is necessary. It has been known and well tested since the time of Einstein that all matter is restricted to motion at sublight velocities (<< 3 x 108 m/s, the speed of light, or c}, and that as matter approaches the speed of light, its mass asymptotically approaches infinity. This mass increase ensures …

UNCLASSIFIED / -®@R-OP EIGER USE Ont spacecraft capable of 100c! for an array of exotic destinations of pessible interest. As Table 1 shows, trips to the planets within our own solar system would take hours rather than years, and journeys to local star system would be measured in weeks rather than hundreds of thousands of years. Table 1. Transit Times to Various Exotic Destinations at 100 Times the Speed of Light [Mars 193 seconds /38days Until recently, the warp drive was a concept reserved for science fiction. However, a 1994 paper by Miguel Alcubierre placed the idea on a more solid theoret…

UNCLASSIFIED /#F@R-GPEtCEREUSE-ONE YT Although we know what dark energy does, we do not yet fully understand its nature. We do not understand why it exists or how it is created; we simply know it provides an ever-present force on spacetime, causing the universe to expand. Indeed, recent high-precision experimental observations indicate dark energy may be a cosmological vacuum energy (Reference 8-10). These observations are based on the magnitudes of high-redshift supernova and have been a source of high research activity of late owing to the unexpected discovery that the rate of expansion of t…

UNCLASSIFIED / /®#@R-OPPSCREEUSEONET™ 2. General Relativistic Warp Drives Alcubierre (Reference 1) derived a spacetime metric motivated by cosmological inflation that would allow arbitrarily short travel times between two distant points in space. The “warp drive” metric uses coordinates (t, x, y, z) and curve (or worldline) x = xzn(t), y = 0, z = 0, lying in the t-x plane passing through the origin. Note that xsh is the x-axis coordinate position of the moving spaceship (or warp bubble) frame. The metric! specifying this particular spacetime geometry is (Reference 1): ds? =—Cdt" +[dx—v, OS(R O…