Vacuum Fluctuations, Connectivity and Superluminal Physics for Interstellar Travel
Niedra, Janis M. 1
資料言語：English
資料言語：English
■冊子名、収録誌など
NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Workshop Proceedings
.pp275-279
Jan. 01, 1999
冊子レポート番号：NASA/CP-1999-208694
.pp275-279
Jan. 01, 1999
冊子レポート番号：NASA/CP-1999-208694
■発行機関など
発行年月日：19990101
発行年月日：January 1999
発行年：1999
発行年月日：January 1999
発行年：1999
■抄録など
This paper argues that scientific speculation on the possibility of practical superluminal transport leads down quite restrictive paths of thought. A machine that can globally exceed the speed of light must be able to actively modify the spacetime metric in its locality in order to avoid the tachyonic causality violation in Minkowski space. Although metric warps sufficient for transport seem to require unphysically large amounts of negative energy within General Relativity, the potentially even larger content of virtual energy in the EM zero-point fluctuations (ZPF) is pointed out. Otherwise, to work around the energy dilemma, there must exist a small-scale structure to spacetime that can be manipulated locally with reasonable energy expenditure. The idea is proposed that quantum noise of some sort prevents the reconnection of elementary spacetime paths and a consequent topological collapse, or reversion to a less structured state, of spacetime itself. This is a generalization of an interpretation, based, on Boyer's stochastic electrodynamics, that ZPF keeps the world from atomic collapse. The transport machine then operates as an inchworm in spacetime by temporarily forcing an above equilibrium connection of paths between locally spacelike separated regions. EM field configurations analogous to those used in some resonance experiments are suggested as possible tools. The connection of paths between normally spacelike separated regions having a different energy level of the vacuum may possibly lead to the direct extraction of energy at the expense of spacetime structure.
抄録言語：NC
抄録言語：NC
| 資料番号 | 19990023237 |
| 複写許可管理 | No Copyright |
| 分類（英） | Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics |
| 総ページ数 | 6p |
| 記事種 | Conference Paper |
| シソーラス | INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL ZERO POINT ENERGY SPACECRAFT PROPULSION RELATIVITY SPACE-TIME FUNCTIONS VACUUM ELECTRODYNAMICS |
| シソーラス マイナーワード | STOCHASTIC PROCESSES ENERGY LEVELS INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT ROCKET ENGINES INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT |
| レコードタイプ | NASA文献 |
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