Aerospace Systems & Technology Conference Dr. Don V Black http://www.DonVBlack.com Advanced Propulsion Systems - 2012 Overview History - Over 800 years of chemical rockets Alternatives Beyond Rocket Science Challenges 1. Exit from this Gravity Well 2. Travel Time a. Interplanetary b. Interstellar Theoretical Solutions Advanced Propulsion Systems - 2012 What do we Really Know? There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Shakespeare, Hamlet Act II, Scene V
1. What we know we know (or think we know)
2. What we know we dont know (this gedanken) 3. What we dont know we know 4. What we dont know we dont know - Don V Black (not Rumsfled) Advanced Propulsion Systems - 2012 Requirements of Alternatives 1. Popper Falsifiable 2. Conservation of Momentum 3. Conservation of Energy 4. External Force Requirement (for acceleration) 5. Must be Sustainable 6. Consistent with Empirical Observation 7. Controllable (on/off, throttled, directional) 8. Practical Performance Levels Advanced Propulsion Systems - 2012 The New Aether Dark Energy (6.9 x 10-27 Kg/m3) Dark Matter (2.1 x 10-27 Kg/m3) Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) (10-31) Quantum Vacuum (1018 Kg/m3) Virtual Particle Pairs Galactic Hydrogen (3.3 x 10-21 Kg/m3) Spacetime Advanced Propulsion Systems - 2012 Hypothetical Alternatives Two fundamental propulsion strategies:
Diverge from the Geodesic
Use Force to push a massive object off the Geodesic
Modify the Geodesic
Engineer Spacetime to make the Geodesic take you where you want to go, i.e. let you `fall there. Advanced Propulsion Systems - 2012 Diverge from the Geodesic (via Force) Interstellar Jet Space Sails (Solar, Light, Magnetic, Particle Beam) Inertial Modification (Rocket, Oscillator) Electromagnetic Catapults (<12 km/s)
SpaceX Engine Test Firing
Advanced Propulsion Systems - 2012 Diverge from the Geodesic (via Force) Interstellar Jet (M*V + m*v = 0) Chemical Propulsion Bussard Ramjet with Beamed Energy (a magnetic field a few miles to hundreds of miles in diameter) (Fission, Fusion, or Antimatter collecting and heating The New Aether) Matter-Antimatter Annihilation Propulsion Fusion Propulsion (Rocket or Ramjet) via ICF or MCF Fission Fragment Propulsion (Rocket & Sail) Advanced Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP) Advanced Propulsion Systems - 2012 Diverge from the Geodesic (via Force) Interstellar Jet (M*V + m*v = 0) Bussard Ramjet with Beamed Energy (a magnetic field miles in diameter) (Fission, Fusion, or Antimatter collecting and heating The New Aether) Fission, Fusion, or Matter-Antimatter Annihilation Propulsion (Project Orion in early 1960s: 10 M hp. Mars roundtrip for 200 men is four weeks) Advanced Propulsion Systems - 2012 Diverge from the Geodesic (via Force) Interstellar Jet (M*V + m*v = 0) Fusion Propulsion (Rocket or Ramjet) via ICF or MCF Advanced Propulsion Systems - 2012 Diverge from the Geodesic (via Force) Interstellar Jet (M*V + m*v = 0) Advanced Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP)
Variable Specific Impulse
Electric Ion Propulsion (EIT) Magnetoplasma Rocket Asteroid Deflection Tool (VSIMR) Advanced Propulsion Systems - 2012 Diverge from the Geodesic (via Force) Space Sails Differential, Induction & Diode Solar Sails & Light Sails Magnetic Sails & Particle Beam Sails Fission Fragment Advanced Propulsion Systems - 2012 Diverge from the Geodesic (via Force) Space Sails Differential, Induction & Diode Advanced Propulsion Systems - 2012 Diverge from the Geodesic (via Force) Space Sails Solar Sails & Light Sails Advanced Propulsion Systems - 2012 Diverge from the Geodesic (via Force) Space Sails Magnetic Sails & Particle Beam Sails Fission Fragment Advanced Propulsion Systems - 2012 Use the Geodesic Inertial Modification (Rocket, Oscillator) Reduce Rocket/Fuel Inertia Ratio Advanced Propulsion Systems - 2012 Hypothetical Alternatives Modify the Geodesic (Engineer Spacetime)
Field Drives (Diametric, Disjunction, Gradient,
Bias) Negative Matter & Negative Energy (Everything not forbidden is compulsory Gel-Mann) Warp Drives & Worm Holes Gravity Control There are more Advanced Propulsion Systems 2012 Modify the Geodesic (Engineer Spacetime) Field Drives (Diametric, Disjunction, Advanced Propulsion Systems - 2012 Modify the Geodesic (Engineer Spacetime) Field Drives (Gradient, Bias) Advanced Propulsion Systems 2012 Modify the Geodesic (Engineer Spacetime) Negative Matter & Negative Energy (Everything not forbidden is compulsory Gel-Mann)
Negative Mass is such a Handy Tool
Advanced Propulsion Systems - 2012 Modify the Geodesic (Engineer Spacetime) Warp Drives & Worm Holes (need Negative Mass) Advanced Propulsion Systems - 2012 Modify the Geodesic (Engineer Spacetime) Gravity Control & Anti-Gravity Gravitomagnetic Forces (GR Frame Dragging) Negative Energy Antigravity (GR negative energy density & negative pressure are EFE solutions)
Cosmological Antigravity (Energy Density Pressure, Vacuum Energy of Dark Energy, Inflation)
Levi-Civita & Gertsenshtein Effects
(Possible EMF GR interactions shown in EFE & EMF Eqns) (Levi-Civita: Gravitational field induced by EMF - Pauli) (Gert.: EMF resonance phenomena that produces an EFE Wave)
Antigravity Solutions in Quantum Gravity Theories
Advanced Propulsion Systems 2012 In Conclusion Chemical Nuclear Electric Pulsed Ion Propulsion Earth/Lunar Based Laser Light Sails Earth & Lunar Catapults The Search for Negative Matter
Research Novel Theories. Do the Math.
Fill in the Details. You Are The New Engineers. Advanced Propulsion Systems Beyond Rocket Science - An Overview
2012 - 9th Annual
Aerospace Systems & Technology Conference Dr. Don V Black http://www.DonVBlack.com Advanced Propulsion Systems - 2012 Modify the Geodesic (Engineer Spacetime) Beyond Science Fiction Negative Matter is such a Handy Tool