NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Workshop Proceedings

TITLE AND SUBTITLE:
NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Workshop Proceedings

AUTHOR(S):
Marc G. Millis and Gary Scott Williamson, editors

REPORT DATE:
January 1999

FUNDING NUMBERS:
WU-953-74-40-00

PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES):
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Lewis Research Center
Cleveland, Ohio 44135-3191

PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBER:
E-11429

SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES):
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Washington, DC 20546-0001

REPORT TYPE AND DATES COVERED:
Conference Publication

SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY REPORT NUMBER:
NASA CP-1999-208694

SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES:
Proceedings of a workshop sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, August 12-14, 1998.
Responsible person, Marc G. Millis, Turbomachinery and Propulsions Systems Division, organization code 5870,
(216) 977-7535.

ABSTRACT:
In August 1997, NASA sponsored a 3-day workshop to assess the prospects emerging from physics that may eventually lead to creating propulsion breakthroughs-the kind of breakthroughs that could revolutionize space flight and enable human voyages to other star systems. Experiments and theories were discussed regarding the coupling of gravity and electromagnetism, vacuum fluctuation energy, warp drives and wormholes, and superluminal quantum tunneling. Because the propulsion goals are presumably far from fruition, a special emphasis was to identify affordable, near-term, and credible research tasks that could make measurable progress toward these grand ambitions. This workshop was one of the first steps for the new NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics program led by the NASA Lewis Research Center. This program is funded out of the Advanced Space Transportation Program, managed by Marshall Space Flight Center.

SUBJECT TERMS:
Space propulsion; Physics; General relativity; Gravity; Special relativity; Quantum physics

NUMBER OF PAGES:
476

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