In August, 1997, a NASA workshop was held to assess the prospects emerging from physics that might lead to creating the ultimate breakthroughs in space transportation: propulsion that requires no propellant mass, attaining the maximum transit speeds physically possible, and breakthrough methods of energy production to power such devices. Because these propulsion goals are presumably far from fruition, a special emphasis was to identify affordable, near-term, and credible research that could make measurable progress toward these propulsion goals. Experiments and theories were discussed regarding the coupling of gravity and electromagnetism, vacuum fluctuation energy, warp drives and wormholes, and superluminal quantum tunneling. Preliminary results of this workshop are presented, along with the status of the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics program that conducted this workshop.


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    Title :

    Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Workshop Preliminary Results


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Plenary Session 3, "Views of the Future" for the Space Technology and Applications International Forum ; 1998 ; Albuquerque, NM, United States


    Publication date :

    1997-11-01


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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