NASA BPP 2001

AIAA-2001-3906, Harry Ringermacher

Co-author was Brice Cassenti of United Technologies. Ringermacher presented an experimental paper that looks for a time shift in a reference frame that undergoes a potential difference change. It is well known in GR (General Relativity) that a clock which undergoes a change in gravitational potential...

AIAA-2001-3907, James Woodward

Woodward presented an experimental paper on how transient mass fluctuations may arise from a variation in Machian inertial reaction forces that arise in the dynamic solution of the GR equations. Prior solutions to GR equations have been static in the sense that they have not included all the dynamic terms...

AIAA-2001-3908, J Cramer

Cramer presented a progress report on an experimental setup to independently confirm Woodward's theoretical solution. Cramer has predicted that Woodward's linear drive effect is smaller than originally calculated because the force that arises from the change in mass is counteracted...

AIAA-2001-3909, M. Mojahedi & Kevin Malloy

Malloy presented an experimental paper investigating the claims of superluminal but causal wave propagation. There has been a lot of recent confusion and misinformation on this topic. The purpose of this paper was to clear up the confusion and set the record straight. In this experiment, a microwave pulse...

AIAA-2001-3910, C Van Den Broeck

Author was not able to present. Per J Cramer, who reviewed the paper, it is a description of a possible future technology to create negative mass, but "it won't be anything you'll be able to do in your lab anytime soon." Negative mass is a required component of ST (Space Time) warp drives such as the Morris-Thorne...

AIAA-2001-3911, Martin Tajmar & C. de Matos

Tajmar began the presentation of this theoretical paper by outlining how the GR equations may be linearized, as per Forward, such that GR may be split into "Gravitoelectric" field effects such as are seen in Newtonian gravity, and "Gravitomagnetic" field effects, such as are seen in the Lense-Thirring effect and in frame dragging...

AIAA-2001-3913, Jeff Cameron

Cameron presented a paper on a proposed Asymmetrical Gravity Wave Propulsion System that has been simulated using computer simulation but has not yet been experimentally verified. The proposed concept uses Weber resonant vibrators as gravity wave radiators, and magnifies the effect by proposing an array...

AIAA-2001-3912, Robin Tucker

The concept of Gravito Electro Magnetism was briefly touched upon, i.e. the analogy between GR and Maxwell's equations, only to point out that the time dependence of these equations is restricted by the linearization process and therefore they should be used for quasi-static cases only, which are not typically the cases of interest...

AIAA-2001-3653, Dave Goodwin

Goodwin presented a proposal for an experimental proof of concept of an inertial drive propulsion system that does not use propellant. The proposed system would use a pulsed magnetic field approach, created by
switching 9000V, 30A power at a 400KHz rep rate, with a 100ns rise time...

AIAA-2001-3654, Jim Corum

Corum presented an experimental paper on the use of the Heaviside force in conjunction with a Slepian Antenna as a form of space drive using nothing more than the classical Maxwell stress tensor. Slepian proposed the same thing in 1949, but came to the conclusion that it would not be useful...