This does seem like something Tom Bearden would have published, it seems to about neutralizing gravity. Whether it belongs on GAW is a matter for the Mods, it not really connected with Q at all.
The text you've shared (which appears to be a dictated or OCR-scanned excerpt, given typos like "pipe wound around the torus" and garbled phrases) is from a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) unclassified reference document titled "Antigravity for Aerospace Applications" (published around 2010, based on declassified FOIA releases).
This document discusses theoretical concepts for generating antigravity effects, drawing analogies between electromagnetism and general relativity (specifically gravitomagnetism or gravitoelectromagnetism in the weak-field limit).
Key Elements from the Excerpt
Figure 2: Dipole Gravitational Field Generator (Reference 14) — This is the main diagram shown: a toroidal (doughnut-shaped) structure with pipes wound around it. Dense matter (ideally at dwarf-star densities) is accelerated through these pipes.
The setup induces a gravitomagnetic field (analogous to a magnetic field from current in a wire), and accelerating the mass flow creates a time-varying gravitomagnetic field, which in turn generates a dipole gravitational field (G) at the center — directed to produce an upward antigravity effect.
The equation provided is for the magnitude of this field at the center:
[ G \approx \frac{\eta_0 N \dot{\Gamma}}{4\pi R_1^2} ]
where:
(\eta_0) is the "vacuum gravitational permeability" constant ≈ 16πG/c² ≈ 3.73 × 10⁻²⁶ m/kg (a very tiny value derived from general relativity constants).
N = total number of pipe turns around the torus.
(\dot{\Gamma}) = time rate-of-change of mass current (mass flow rate acceleration) through the pipes.
r = radius of one pipe loop.
R₁ = torus radius.
c = speed of light (3 × 10⁸ m/s).
This is explicitly compared to the analogous electric dipole field from changing current in a wire-wound torus (Equation 4 in the document).
Forward (physicist Robert L. Forward) calculated that to produce a meaningful antigravity effect (e.g., counteracting 1g ≈ 9.8 m/s² upward), you'd need:
Insane accelerations (≈ 10¹¹ m/s²) of that mass flow.
The tiny (\eta_0) factor explains why the effect is minuscule unless the setup is astronomically large/impractical.
Figure 3 (mentioned) shows an alternative "inside-out" rotating torus of dense matter (like a smoke ring turning inside-out), which also generates an upward acceleration in the direction of mass motion.
The document notes the vacuum "gravitational permittivity" constant (another analogy term) as η_g = (4πG)⁻¹ ≈ 1.19 × 10⁹ kg·s²/m³ (Reference 12).
Context and Reality Check
This is a theoretical proposal from Robert L. Forward (a physicist known for sci-fi like Dragon's Egg and serious GR work). It appears in his earlier papers (e.g., "Guidelines to Antigravity" in American Journal of Physics, 1963, and related works cited as References 5, 13, 14 in the DIA doc).
The DIA document surveys exotic propulsion ideas (including negative energy, Casimir effect, dark energy) but concludes that no practical technology exists for Forward's dipole generator — the required densities, accelerations, and scales are beyond current (or foreseeable) engineering. It's more a thought experiment highlighting gravitomagnetic analogies than a blueprint for a working device.
If this is from a specific document you're reading or if you'd like clarification on any equation, the physics analogies, or related concepts (e.g., gravitomagnetism experiments like Gravity Probe B), let me know!
This does seem like something Tom Bearden would have published, it seems to about neutralizing gravity. Whether it belongs on GAW is a matter for the Mods, it not really connected with Q at all.
A John Titor fan, very nice
Gibberish
Why exactly?
I couldn't read it
The text you've shared (which appears to be a dictated or OCR-scanned excerpt, given typos like "pipe wound around the torus" and garbled phrases) is from a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) unclassified reference document titled "Antigravity for Aerospace Applications" (published around 2010, based on declassified FOIA releases).
This document discusses theoretical concepts for generating antigravity effects, drawing analogies between electromagnetism and general relativity (specifically gravitomagnetism or gravitoelectromagnetism in the weak-field limit).
Key Elements from the Excerpt
Figure 2: Dipole Gravitational Field Generator (Reference 14) — This is the main diagram shown: a toroidal (doughnut-shaped) structure with pipes wound around it. Dense matter (ideally at dwarf-star densities) is accelerated through these pipes.
The setup induces a gravitomagnetic field (analogous to a magnetic field from current in a wire), and accelerating the mass flow creates a time-varying gravitomagnetic field, which in turn generates a dipole gravitational field (G) at the center — directed to produce an upward antigravity effect.
The equation provided is for the magnitude of this field at the center:
[ G \approx \frac{\eta_0 N \dot{\Gamma}}{4\pi R_1^2} ]
where:
This is explicitly compared to the analogous electric dipole field from changing current in a wire-wound torus (Equation 4 in the document).
Forward (physicist Robert L. Forward) calculated that to produce a meaningful antigravity effect (e.g., counteracting 1g ≈ 9.8 m/s² upward), you'd need:
Figure 3 (mentioned) shows an alternative "inside-out" rotating torus of dense matter (like a smoke ring turning inside-out), which also generates an upward acceleration in the direction of mass motion.
The document notes the vacuum "gravitational permittivity" constant (another analogy term) as η_g = (4πG)⁻¹ ≈ 1.19 × 10⁹ kg·s²/m³ (Reference 12).
Context and Reality Check
This is a theoretical proposal from Robert L. Forward (a physicist known for sci-fi like Dragon's Egg and serious GR work). It appears in his earlier papers (e.g., "Guidelines to Antigravity" in American Journal of Physics, 1963, and related works cited as References 5, 13, 14 in the DIA doc).
The DIA document surveys exotic propulsion ideas (including negative energy, Casimir effect, dark energy) but concludes that no practical technology exists for Forward's dipole generator — the required densities, accelerations, and scales are beyond current (or foreseeable) engineering. It's more a thought experiment highlighting gravitomagnetic analogies than a blueprint for a working device.
If this is from a specific document you're reading or if you'd like clarification on any equation, the physics analogies, or related concepts (e.g., gravitomagnetism experiments like Gravity Probe B), let me know!