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Davis: I answered most of this in my response above. I cannot comment onspecific proprietary research, but I can say there are ideas we are looking into forthe theoretical development and experimental implementation of tapping ZPEfor power generation. All of this is in the works, so there is nothing I can reporton.AAG: You've done some remarkable speculative physics research, and I'mwondering how your life experience & training led you into this type of work.Davis: Actually, I was led to this type of work by the pioneering research andpopular papers/books/articles published by Dr. Robert L. Forward and hiscolleagues during the 1970s, which ignited an intense spark within me thatfostered my childhood dream of someday being able to fly to the stars on a warpdrivestarship, and being one of the guys to invent the physics.I was also a huge fan of the TV shows Star Trek, Lost In Space and The OuterLimits when I was a kid (and I still am a fan!!). In addition, the Dept. of Defenseand the MacArthur Foundation produced (via film producers Robert Emeneggerand Allan Sandler) a 1974 TV documentary that strongly influencedme: UFOs:Past, Present & Future, which was a Golden Globe nominee for best documentaryproduction in 1975, and it was later updated and re-released in1979 as UFOs: ItHas Begun. I also watched all the ground-breaking classic science fiction moviesof the 20th century, among my favorites are: The Time Machine, The War of theWorlds, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, the Star Wars movies,the Star Trek movies, the Alien movies, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of theApes, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, ET: The Extraterrestrial, etc.Starting in middle school I read all the Science News and Scientific Americanmagazines; and I read lots of science fiction novels written by Isaac Asimov,James Blish, Arthur C. Clark, H. G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, Frank Herbert, andLarry Niven. I also read scientific and investigative journalism books written byCarl Sagan, Jacques Vallee, Carl Sagan and Thornton Page, Howard Blum, PaulDavies, Robert Emenegger, John Fuller, Donald Keyhoe, Allen Hynek, BradSteiger, etc. Other books I read were a variety of physics and physics historybooks; most pertaining to particle physics and unified field theories, Einstein'srelativity theories, quantum theories, and space exploration.All of this plus the real-world R&D work being done in the 70s-80s on futureflight propulsion physics by Hughes Research Lab (then in Malibu, CA), the AirForce, NASA, Boeing, McDonnell-Douglas, etc. ignited that huge spark withinme.Another much later turning point for me (that turned on that inner spark evenhigher) was when I read Robert Forward's 1988 book "Future Magic" while ingrad school. In that book Bob wrote about his conceptual physics explainingtelepathy, dousing, consciousness, and the spirits of deceased people. That wassurprising considering that the topic of the book had to do with FTL physics,space and time warps, antimatter rockets, etc. What a blast!American Antigravity.Com Page 2 of 8
And, if you don't already know this, Bob was Joseph Weber's Ph.D. grad studentin the 1960s at the University of Maryland, where they did pioneering researchdeveloping gravity wave detectors. Bob's first prototype detector is now in theSmithsonian Institute Museum in Washington DC. Bob was a winner of theannual international general relativity physics essay competition, was awarded aHughes Corporation graduate student fellowship to do gravity research withWeber, published numerous technical papers and was awared patents, and sawmany of his gravity detection sensors launched on Air Force satellites. Hiswinning essay was about his discovery of antigravity force solutions in Einstein'sgeneral relativity theory. I pointed out this work (in connection with myupcoming Advanced Propulsion Study for the Air Force) in a January 2004briefing to the Air Force Research Lab.Anyway, I first met Robert Forward, Robert Bussard, Alan C. Holt, Dave Froningand others at the annual AIAA Joint Propulsion Conference in Las Vegas duringthe summer of 1979. I had just finished high school then. UFOs and theirhypothetical propulsion physics, warp drives, fusion ramjets, antimatter rockets,photon and laser rockets, etc. were all the rage among the large mainstreamaerospace and military defense corporations, U.S. military and NASA physicistsand engineers of the time. The AIAA's annual joint propulsion conferences had"Future Flight" sessions where research into these topics were presented asserious technical papers. That tradition continues today, more or less, in theguise of the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics technical paper sessions and theSTAIF's Near and Far Term Propulsion Concepts sessions.I established a correspondence relationship with Bob Forward and Alan Holt thatwent on (off and on) for the first 5 years while I was in college and going on tograd school. But my correspondences and personal face-to-face interactionsbecame more steady and continued for 20 years thereafter. All told, I have knownthese individuals for 26 years. Although, Bob Forward died from an inoperablebrain tumor in Fall 2001, and this was awful for everyone who knew him.Bob Forward began mentoring me in the area of breakthrough propulsion andpower physics (a.k.a. BPP) by first introducing me to all of his Hughes/Air Forceresearch studies on antimatter physics, antimatter rocket propulsion, etc. Hismentoring evolved to include his research into exploiting the quantum vacuumzero-point energies/fluctuations, Einstein general relativity FTL schemes leadingto warp drives and traversable wormholes, exploring and exploiting psychicphenomena, exploring "new physics", exploring the known anomalies (or findingnew ones) in current theoretical and experimental physics to find potentialbreakthrought propulsion and power.Bob sent me copies of all his reports and the reports of other physicists/engineershe worked with, and he put me on his Mirror Matter Newsletter membership, etc.He sent me everything he published that was of relevance to breakthroughpropulsion physics (BPP). When I started grad school Bob told me the bad newsthat there were no graduate Ph.D. degree programs in this field, so I would haveto get a Ph.D. in some discipline of physics I liked and get a job in industry if IAmerican Antigravity.Com Page 3 of 8
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