Heims Hyperdrive? NO!

On Jan 5, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:


On Jan 5, 2006, at 10:17 AM, PhD theoretical physicist, Andrew Beckwith wrote:

I read that paper. It is insane. For one thing, space is NOT eight dimensional. Also
formula 9 in the paper is flat out wrong.


Bernd Prager wrote:
"The Scotsman" today claims that US airforce and American Department
of Energy are interested in testing the possibility of "hyperspace"
propulsion device based on Burkhard Heim's theory.

Here's the article: http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=16902006

The paper describing the theory is here:
http://www.uibk.ac.at/c/cb/cb26/heim/theorie_raumfahrt/hqtforspacepropphysicsaip2005.pdf

What do you think?


On Jan 5, 2006, at 9:44 AM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:

Just received

"The Scotsman" today claims that US airforce and American Department
of Energy are interested in testing the possibility of "hyperspace"
propulsion device based on Burkhard Heim's theory.

Here's the article: http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=16902006

The paper describing the theory is here:
http://www.uibk.ac.at/c/cb/cb26/heim/theorie_raumfahrt/hqtforspacepropphysicsaip2005.pdf

What do you think?"

I am still sure this Heim idea is not the way to go. I could be wrong and will look at the paper when I get a chance. Low priority.

On Jan 5, 2006, at 9:12 AM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:

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On Jan 5, 2006, at 8:50 AM, Dr. Eric Davis wrote:
Jack:

FYI!

Prof. J. Hauser has received the AIAA 2004 best technical paper award for his paper on hyperdrive propulsion based on Heim's theory.

Eric


I once tried to read a paper by Heims. It seemed nonsense to me like Yilmaz's papers. I could be wrong of course. Both theories seem ugly and contrived. Einstein's is simpler and does the job when applied correctly. What AIAA thinks has little credibility UNLESS Matt Visser, Bill Unruh, Kit Green, Roger Penrose et-al have vetted it and say it's kosher. The cognitive gap between the engineers and the relativity physicists is too large.

If you understand the stuff below please give us a lecture on it. Thanks. :-)

Another dimension? How do you get a ship through a tiny curled up dimension? Even if dimension is large, photons and leptons and quarks are stuck to the branes. Only gravity can travel in hyperspace. So the whole idea seems crackpot. Egg on face of the AIAA! Where is Robert Park? ;-)

Sandia?


Hyperdrive Engine Interesting Experts. New Scientist (1/7 issue, Lietz) reports, "Every year, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics awards prizes for the best papers presented at its annual conference. Last year's winner in the nuclear and future flight category went to a paper calling for experimental tests of an astonishing new type of engine. According to the paper, this hyperdrive motor would propel a craft through another dimension at enormous speeds. It could leave Earth at lunchtime and get to the moon in time for dinner. There's just one catch: the idea relies on an obscure and largely unrecognised kind of physics. Can they possibly be serious? The AIAA is certainly not embarrassed. What's more, the US military has begun to cast its eyes over the hyperdrive concept, and a space propulsion researcher at the US Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories has said he would be interested in putting the idea to the test."


NASA Said To Be Interested. The (UK) Scotsman (1/5, Johnston) reports, "The hypothetical device, which has been outlined in principle but is based on a controversial theory about the fabric of the universe, ... works by creating an intense magnetic field that, according to ideas first developed by the late scientist Burkhard Heim in the 1950s, would produce a gravitational field and result in thrust for a spacecraft. Also, if a large enough magnetic field was created, the craft would slip into a different dimension, where the speed of light is faster, allowing incredible speeds to be reached. Switching off the magnetic field would result in the engine reappearing in our current dimension." The story adds, "Professor Jochem Hauser, one of the scientists who put forward the idea, told The Scotsman that if everything went well a working engine could be tested in about five years." He also said "'NASA have contacted me and next week I'm going to see someone from the [US] air force to talk about it further, but it is at a very early stage.'"


The (UK) Sun (1/5, Sutherland) reports, "The US military is probing the possibility of Captain Kirk-style "warp speed" using a concept called hyperdrive. ... A round trip to Mars would take five hours instead of 2½ years, according to scientists."

Seems crackpot to me. But what do I know? ;-)



FROM: http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=16902006


Welcome to Mars express: only a three hour trip


IAN JOHNSTON SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT

AN EXTRAORDINARY "hyperspace" engine that could make interstellar space travel a reality by flying into other dimensions is being investigated by the United States government.

The hypothetical device, which has been outlined in principle but is based on a controversial theory about the fabric of the universe, could potentially allow a spacecraft to travel to Mars in three hours and journey to a star 11 light years away in just 80 days, according to a report in today's New Scientist magazine.

The theoretical engine works by creating an intense magnetic field that, according to ideas first developed by the late scientist Burkhard Heim in the 1950s, would produce a gravitational field and result in thrust for a spacecraft.

Also, if a large enough magnetic-field was created, the craft would slip into a different dimension, where the speed of light is faster, allowing incredible speeds to be reached. Switching off the magnetic field would result in the engine reappearing in our current dimension.

The US air force has expressed an interest in the idea and scientists working for the American Department of Energy - which has a device known as the Z-Machine that could generate the kind of magnetic fields required to drive the engine - say they may carry out a test if the theory withstands further scrutiny.

Professor Jochem Hauser, one of the scientists who put forward the idea, told The Scotsman that if everything went well a working engine could be tested in about five years.

However, Prof Hauser, a physicist at the Applied Sciences University in Salzgitter, Germany, and a former chief of aerodynamics at the European Space Agency, cautioned it was based on a highly controversial theory that would require a significant change in the current understanding of the laws of physics.

"It would be amazing. I have been working on propulsion systems for quite a while and it would be the most amazing thing. The benefits would be almost unlimited," he said.

"But this thing is not around the corner; we first have to prove the basic science is correct and there are quite a few physicists who have a different opinion.

"It's our job to prove we are right and we are working on that."

He said the engine would enable spaceships to travel to different solar systems. "If the theory is correct then this is not science fiction, it is science fact," Prof Hauser said.

"NASA has contacted me and next week I'm going to see someone from the [US] air force to talk about it further, but it is at a very early stage. I think the best-case scenario would be within the next five years [to build a test device] if the technology works."

The US authorities' attention was attracted after Prof Hauser and an Austrian colleague, Walter Droscher, wrote a paper called "Guidelines for a space propulsion device based on Heim's quantum theory".

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Research price for Professor Dr. Jochem Häuser


SALZGITTER - The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in Washington D.C. is well known for everyone involved in the aerospace industry. Experts from all over the world present their diversified findings in aerospace affairs at AIAA conferences. With more than 30 000 members the AIAA has evidenced to be a convincing organ in international aerospace.

The Institute multiplexes know-how in the range of aeronautics in numerous mixed teams since several decades now. Prof. Dr. Jochem Häuser (Photo) is Senior Member at the AIAA since 1988 and is elected member in the Nuclear and Future Flight Propulsion work group since 2004. The group aims at the development of physical principles with correspondent technologies of future astronautics drives, such as electromagnetic based space shuttles or fusion- and antimatter driving gear. The AIAA Technical Committee for Nuclear and Future Flight Propulsion awarded Häuser the AIAA research price 2004 for his publication "Guidelines for a Space Propulsion Device Based on Heim's Quantum Theory". This has already been officially communicated to Häuser. He will be in Tuscon/Arizona at July 13th in order to receive the honour - a certificate - in the presence of numerous colleagues. "I am very pleased about this high approval of our research work which has been jointly achieved in four years with our fellows from the IGW (Institut für Grenzgebiete der Wissenschaft) of the University Innsbruck" announced Häuser. The former head of the aero- and aerothermodynamics department at the space agency ESA is now busy at the Fachhochschule Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel. He is Professor for high-performance arithmetic (computer simulation) at the Faculty "Karl-Scharfenberg" at the University location Salzgitter. Beyond that the scientist is engaged with a new research project dealing with physical fundamentals of non chemical astronautics drive. That venture is promoted by the task force innovative projects (AGIP) and the Ministry for Science and Culture in Lower Saxony.





30 March 2005

Prof. Jochem Hauser

Mr. Walter Droescher

University of Applied Sciences

Institut für Grenzgebiete der Wissenschaft (IGW),

Karl-Scharfenbergstr 55

Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck

38229 Salzgitter / GERMANY

Innsbruck, Austria



Dear Authors:

It is my pleasure to inform you that your technical paper entitled "Guidelines for a Space Propulsion Device Based on Heim's Quantum Theory". AIAA Paper 2004-3700, has been named the 2004 AIAA Best Paper by the AIAA Nuclear and Future Flight Technical Committee. AIAA proudly presents Certificates of Merit to recognize such technical and scientific excellence.

You are cordially invited to receive your certificate at the awards luncheon on Wednesday, 13 July 2005, during the AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference at the Tucson Convention Center, Tucson, Arizona. Information about the conference can be found at www.aiaa.org . If you want to attend technical sessions or plenaries, you must register for the conference.

The corresponding author, Prof. Hauser, will receive one extra luncheon ticket if he registers for the conference. If you are not able to attend the conference, your certificate will be mailed to you.

May I request that each of you RSVP your attendance at the luncheon to me by 30 May 2005. Congratulations on this well deserved honor.

Sincerely,



Carol A. Stewart

Honors and Awards Liaison



On Jan 4, 2006, at 7:19 PM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:


Technique I (not the only way perhaps)

On Jan 4, 2006, at 6:34 PM, d14947 wrote:

Jack you (inadvertently:] point to an important issue.

It was advertent.

....
After all, if we already have precognition, PK and so on, we may also be able to operate the fields (Higgs electroweak?) that would allow us to have a warp drive, right? Then we could join the big kids in the galactic playground.

Lenny Susskind says one cannot manipulate the electroweak Higgs field over large volumes - it is too stiff at 10^40 Joules per cc. He is correct. However he means the Higgs intensity. I manipulate the Goldstone Phase. Of course, the two may be connected nonlinearly. However, there is more than one Higgs field. The electroweak Higgs field give the masses of the elementary leptons & quarks, but it's the Planck Scale Higgs field's 2 Goldstone phases that gives gravity.

In the simple case of n = 2 with only one Goldstone phase, toy model for simplicity.

Higgs Field = |Higgs Field|e^i(Goldstone Vacuum Phase)

For metric engineering we have

Higgs Field + Control Field

The important cross term is

2|Higgs Field||Control Field|cos[(Goldstone Vacuum Phase - Control Phase)

where |Higgs Field| STAYS CONSTANT as Lenny says.

&/\zpf ~ 2|Higgs Field||Control Field|cos[(Goldstone Vacuum Phase - Control Phase)

Goldstone Vacuum Phase - Control Phase = MODULATED VACUUM PHASE = Chi

BECAUSE the equilibrium Higgs field is very small, i.e. dark energy density ~ 0.73 critical density for flat space universe

(0.73)(8piG/c^4)(Critical Energy Density) = = (Quantum of Area Flux)^-1[|Higgs Field|^2 - 1]

Where Higgs Field is normalized to a pure number.

+ &/\zpf = (Quantum of Area Flux)^-1[|Higgs Field + Control Field|^2 - 1]

&/\zpf = (Quantum of Area Flux)^-1[2|Higgs Field||Control Field|cos(Chi) + |Control Field|^2 ]

where Higgs Field||Control Field| >> |Control Field|^2

i.e. |Control Field|/|Higgs Field| << 1

TINY CONTROL SIGNAL is AMPLIFIED!