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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
However, the AF was caught off-guard and surprised by the unexpected outburstof media attention and the accompanying outcry that came from the professionalpolitical, national security and scientific agitators in society. But in the end, theAF supported the study because it had to, because it is required to (see below forspecifics on this).What these agitators and self-appointed pundits don't understand about thefederal government is that there are major policy and statutory requirements thatall U.S. military research labs must explore, investigate, and conduct out-of-theboxresearch in areas not usually considered mainstream in order to uncover allpossibilities for expanding the envelope of presently known science and/or todiscover new science in support of future military needs and missions. This iswhy the AFRL's Advanced Concepts Office at Edwards AFB commissioned theteleportation physics study. DARPA's R&D mandate is another example of thesepolicy/statutory regulations.AAG: Speaking of TV, since you've done the study, if Hollywood called you upto consult for the TV show, would you give it any thought?Davis: Sure! Many qualified scientists already do this. NASA has personnelwho consult to the film/TV studios on productions related to spaceflight, spacescience fiction, etc.AAG: You have a big event coming up in February -- it's once again time forthe annual STAIF conference, and you're on the panel of scientific experts whoreview submitted papers. Can you give us a bit of background about the STAIFconference, as well as your participation in it?Davis: I'm presenting an invited oral paper on the wormhole-stargate aspectof teleportation, which is based on the AFRL study.STAIF is the Space Technologies & Applications International Forum that isannually hosted/sponsored by the Univ. of New Mexico's Institute for Space andNuclear Power Studies in Albuquerque. The symposium is comprised of anumber of different technical conferences that have an emphasis on spacetechnology development. The part I am involved with is the space nuclear powerand propulsion conference which is the venue for the Future Frontiers sessions.These are where the BPP related papers will be presented. The sessions includepapers on detecting and harnessing high frequency gravity waves for propulsion,wormholes, warp drives, anomalies known in present theories and experimentsin physics from which we might derive some kind of BPP technology, FTLcommunications, other FTL flight concepts, antimatter rockets, advancedantimatter-augmented nuclear fusion rockets, ZPE-based space drives, differentproposals for propellant less propulsion, antigravity, gravity/inertia modificationtheories and experiments, etc.The talks are all quite diverse and comprehensive.American Antigravity.Com Page 7 of 8
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