Electromagnetic Phenomena Not Explained by Maxwell's Equations

Barrett, T. W.

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“…Diminishment of ε and µ by many orders of magnitude-to achieve many multiples of light speed in x-u planes of existence-is, of course, an enormous challenge. One way of addressing this challenge is discussed in Barrett (1993) and in Froning and Roach (2000). This way involves emission of specially conditioned em fields from the ship, with the fields possessing the same global, multiply-connected topologies as the fields that give rise to gravity and inertia.…”

Section: Light-speed Changes In Polarized Vacuummentioning

confidence: 99%

“…And this would be consistent with warping of spacetime metric in a direction orthogonal to the metric itself. In this respect, Barrett (1993) derives expanded Maxwell Equations with additional terms for specially conditioned em fields, which have been transformed from ordinary abelian U(1) form to higher nonabelian SU(2) form. These additional terms involve actions of A vector potentials which are multiplied by mathematical quantity (i) that, as an operator, rotates quantities 90 degrees in the quadrature direction.…”

Section: Navigation Propulsion and Control In X-u Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

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Paradox-Free FTL Travel in Higher Dimensional Spaces

Fröning¹

2004

AIP Conference Proceedings

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This paper describes one possibility for rapid round-trip, paradox-free Faster-than-Light (FTL) travel between Earth and distant stars within the human lifetimes of those on-board the ships and Earth. It shows that such rapid transits would require dimensions beyond the 4 dimensions of flat or curved spacetime; with the added dimensions needed to give starships (their worldlines) room to "climb" and "descend" above the spacetime realms of Special Relativity (SR)-realms where nothing travels faster than the speed-of-light (c). The added dimensions would be associated with zero-point field gradients formed within the quantum vacuum by actions of specially conditioned em radiation emitted from accelerating ships. These gradients would result in: STL (slower-than-light) vehicle velocity within the perturbed vacuum surrounding the ship; FTL vehicle velocity with respect to the unperturbed vacuum and Earth; and invisible FTL vehicle travel in all observer-frames that move STL with respect to Earth. For one case of FTL travel, rapid transits to distant stars would result in starship disappearance from human sight after light speed is reached-followed soon thereafter by its reappearance trillions of miles away, in close proximity to its target star. And during the short interval of disappearance, the starship's worldline would jump over trillions of miles of distance-arching like a suddenly-formed rainbow within a "spacetimetau" realm of existence that rises above curved or flat spacetime terrain.

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Section: Light-speed Changes In Polarized Vacuummentioning

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Section: Navigation Propulsion and Control In X-u Spacementioning

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Paradox-Free FTL Travel in Higher Dimensional Spaces

Fröning¹

2004

AIP Conference Proceedings

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“…And investigations such as (26) indicate that prohibitive power would, indeed, be required if ordinary em fields (which do not couple intimately with these that underlie gravity) are used. Examples of more promising em fields may be those described by Barrett in (26,27).…”

Section: Vacuum Modifications For Reduced Inertia and Superluminal Flmentioning

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The Quantum Ramjet Revisited

Fröning¹

2003

54th International Astronautical Congress of the International Astronautical Federation, the International Academy of Astronaut

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In 1980, the author first presented the idea of a quantum interstellar ramjet that could exploit the quantum electromagnetic zero-point energies of the vacuum for propulsion for relativistic spaceflight to the stars. This paper briefly reviews this idea and updates it with subsequent work by others -as to the nature of the quantum vacuum and the possibility of interacting with it for propulsion and power, and for reduction in vehicle flight resistance.

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“…Because of the two paths around the solenoid it is this group that describes the topology underlying the AharonovBohm effect [9][10][11]. SU(2)/Z 2 ffi SO(3) is obtained from the group SU(2) by identifying pairs of elements with opposite signs.…”

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“…For some time, the present writer has been engaged in showing that the spacetime topology defines electromagnetic field equations [6][7][8][9][10][11]-whether the fields be of force or of phase. That is to say, the premise of this enterprise is that a set of field equations are valid only with respect to a set defined topological description of the physical situation.…”

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Topological Approaches to Electromagnetism

Barrett¹

Modern Nonlinear Optics, Part III

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Electromagnetic Phenomena Not Explained by Maxwell's Equations

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Paradox-Free FTL Travel in Higher Dimensional Spaces

Paradox-Free FTL Travel in Higher Dimensional Spaces

The Quantum Ramjet Revisited

Topological Approaches to Electromagnetism

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