Not really...The gravitational wave generator is more suited to being a weapon, and the inertial mass reduction device is much more suited to being a "propulsion" source (I put propulsion in quotation marks because technically you aren't propelling yourself...you are sucking yourself in a direction....it's weird lol.)

It's more about creating a gradient around your craft, so that the spacetime behind you is at a lower potential than your localized spacetime is, and the spacetime in front of you (in the direction you want to go) is at a higher potential. You're creating gravitational "suction", if you will, in the direction you want to go.

It's actually very, very similar in concept to the Alcubierre drive. Alcubierre basically just said "Yo, if you could shape spacetime like this then you could go really fast!" whereas Pais is saying "Dude, this is how you shape spacetime!"

Not really...The gravitational wave generator is more suited to being a weapon, and the inertial mass reduction device is much more suited to being a "propulsion" source (I put propulsion in parentheses because technically you aren't propelling yourself...you are sucking yourself in a direction....it's weird lol.)

It's more about creating a gradient around your craft, so that the spacetime behind you is at a lower potential than your localized spacetime is, and the spacetime in front of you (in the direction you want to go) is at a higher potential. You're creating gravitational "suction", if you will, in the direction you want to go.

It's actually very, very similar in concept to the Alcubierre drive. Alcubierre basically just said "Yo, if you could shape spacetime like this then you could go really fast!" whereas Pais is saying "Dude, this is how you shape spacetime!"