A Conversation with Eric Davis - American Antigravity

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