A Conversation with Eric Davis - American Antigravity

It is physically possible, in principle (based on Einstein's general relativity theoryand also on a toy model for FTL flight based on Hal's Polarizable-VacuumRepresentation of General Relativity), to build a traversable wormhole (in theform of a stargate). But we have a long way to go before we can get a handle onthe technology for creating the negative energy density required to hold open andstabilize such a thing. We have good technical ideas on how to do this, but morework needs to be done to shore up those ideas and get a feel for the numbers thatwill be involved on an experimental level, and we need to examine how to bestdemonstrate a wormhole in the lab once we do get a handle on negative energygeneration.The latest published paper by Matt Visser and his colleagues proved that one cansignificantly relax the demand for a large amount of negative energy density, suchthat we can now consider arbitrarily (near-zero) small amounts for the creationof a traversable wormhole. That means the demand on any particular technologyto produce a negative energy density field can be dramatically reduced toworkable laboratory scale. There is now an opening for us to do a labdemonstration once we develop a negative energy generation system that canproduce a quantifiable amount of negative energy in a confined way.Quantum teleportation will continue to evolve. The negative effects ofdecoherence upon the entanglement process is now becoming well understoodand brought under control, so that the fidelity of teleporting the quantum statesof large samples of atomic matter and photons has improved and will continue todo so. The science will evolve to demonstrate the teleportation of molecular statesand later on large samples of molecules will have their states successfullyteleported. Other quantum teleportation breakthroughs will continue to beannounced, and these will involve teleporting other features and facets of matterand information that we have yet to fathom.It will become possible in the future to forsee dabbling in the quantumteleportation of live beings and bulk inanimate matter (like cargo). But this willinvolve the destruction of their physical quantum states in order to teleport thosestates to another "glom" of matter, thus destroying the originals. This will createdifficult ethical questions that will have to be considered.AAG: Next, I wanted to ask about the feedback you received from theteleportation study. I'm sure that the Air Force gets tons of fan-mail asking aboutwhen they're going to build something like we've seen in StarGate SG-1, and I'mwondering if it made them nervous to see a speculative proposal for the sameidea coming across their desk. Did they take it well?Davis: The Air Force doesn't know what it does because it's such a largebureaucracy. The teleportation study only came to the attention of commandersat WPAFB, the Pentagon, and members of Congress when the media bruhahabroke out. The Air Force took it all very well in the end, though.American Antigravity.Com Page 6 of 8