The Chameleon model—thin‐shell mechanism—proposed by Khoury and Weltman presents a likeness to a stationary warp bubble about masses of significant size and interest to space propulsion. A difference being that the thin‐shell mechanism masks the mass of an object from an external Chameleon field comparable to the gravitational field in warp‐drive theory. However, the thin‐shell mechanism couples to the gravitational field by causing small perturbations limited to an object's effective range, which in essence could act like a warp‐bubble under some “yet to be defined” conditions where the coupling is made stronger. In this paper, the thin‐shell mechanism is discussed and shown to be the underlying physics behind rocket propulsion through the concept of localized oscillating dark matter comprising an increase in the thin‐shell localized to a region on one side of an object. This is accomplished by drawing a connection between the localized oscillation of dark matter in this thin‐shell region and the rocket equations. As such, it appears that a new physics effect is applied to normal matter; indicating that the results should have been observed decades ago. We argue that the Chameleon Model's thin‐shell mechanism is a dark matter/energy field, which has always been in all momentum systems at or above the atomic scale where the mass has some physical significance in respect to the Chameleon model. Therefore, its physical (momentum) effects have already been observed. Further, since the analysis indicates that any motion of an object implies a change to the distribution of dark matter about an object, one can speculate that “inertia is the change in the dark energy distribution about a mass.” This being the case, the Chameleon dark matter/energy field about a mass has effects in many aspects of physics, but the laws have not (yet) been formulated to take advantage of the vacuum field aspects, which may provide the connection needed to extend modern rocketry to propellantless space drives.
Propulsion in the Chameleon Model
SPACE TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL FORUM‐STAIF 2008: 12th Conference on Thermophysics Applications in Microgravity; 1st Symposium on Space Resource Utilization; 25th Symposium on Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion; 6th Conference on Human/Robotic Technology and the Vision for Space Exploration; 6th Symposium on Space Colonization; 5th Symposium on New Frontiers and Future Concept ; 2008 ; Albuquerque (New Mexico)
AIP Conference Proceedings ; 969 , 1 ; 1137-1145
21.01.2008
9 pages
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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