Historical research guide · 0389 · 2017

A hybrid craft using an inertial mass modification device

Salvatore Cezar Pais

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Pais presented AIAA 2017-5343 at the AIAA SPACE forum on September 12, 2017 while at Naval Air Systems Command. The paper is closed access and no open copy or abstract was located, so this page identifies the conference record and uses the contemporaneous Navy patent US10144532B2 for the apparatus claims. That patent describes a charged surface driven in rapid vibration and axial rotation, a proposed polarised-vacuum state, and a craft intended to operate in air, water, and space. It gives example field and energy-flux figures, including conditions asserted to reach 10³³ W/m². The paper does not report a craft test, an inertial-mass measurement, or a gravitational-wave measurement. The item records a conference presentation and a proposed apparatus, not operating performance.

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The AIAA record places the proposed craft in its publication context, while the linked Navy patent supplies the design details and numerical claims. The page keeps the conference paper and patent separate.

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A hybrid craft — one vehicle for air, water and space — can be built around an inertial mass modification device. Pais presented the design under that title to the AIAA SPACE and Astronautics Forum on 12 September 2017, writing from Naval Air Systems Command.Title, venue and bibliographic record, AIAA 2017-5343
It is possible to reduce the inertial mass, and hence the gravitational mass, of a system in motion by an abrupt perturbation of the non-linear background of local spacetime, equivalent to an accelerated excursion far from thermodynamic equilibrium. The physical mechanism is the negative pressure, and hence repulsive gravity, exhibited by the polarised local vacuum energy state — polarisation being achieved by coupling accelerated high-frequency vibration with accelerated high-frequency axial rotation of an electrically charged object.Companion Navy patent US10144532B2, Background
The result is a hybrid aerospace and undersea craft which, because of the inertial mass reduction device, can function as a submersible capable of extreme underwater speeds through lack of water-skin friction and of enhanced stealth through non-linear scattering of radio-frequency and sonar signals, moving with great ease through the air, space and water media by being enclosed in a vacuum plasma bubble or sheath.Companion Navy patent US10144532B2, Description, the hybrid aerospace and undersea craft passage
The design carries its own numbers. For a spinning charged disc of two-metre radius at 30,000 revolutions per minute with a surface charge density of 50,000 coulombs per square metre, the energy flux is of order 10²⁴ watts per square metre; coupling that rotation to vibration frequencies from 10⁹ to 10¹⁸ hertz raises it to the range 10²⁴ to 10²⁸; and in the accelerating-vibration mode a surface charge density of order unity at about 10¹¹ hertz reaches 10³³ watts per square metre, which is past the electric field of about 10¹⁸ volts per metre that Julian Schwinger gave for spontaneous pair production out of the vacuum.Companion Navy patent US10144532B2, Background, Equations 1 to 3
The organising principle is Ilya Prigogine’s far-from-equilibrium thermodynamics: a chaotic system self-organises if it is non-linear, if it experiences an abrupt excursion far from thermodynamic equilibrium, and if it is subjected to an energy flux. An artificially generated high-energy, high-frequency electromagnetic field in accelerated vibration and rotation fulfils all three conditions at once when it interacts strongly with the local vacuum energy state.Companion Navy patent US10144532B2, Background, the Prigogine effect passage
The same architecture is claimed to enable the Gertsenshtein effect — the production of high-frequency gravitational waves by high-frequency electromagnetic radiation — modifying the gravitational fields in close proximity to the craft and so producing its propulsion.Companion Navy patent US10144532B2, Background, the Gertsenshtein effect sentence

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https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2017-5343

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WHAT THIS IS. A conference paper, not a patent: AIAA 2017-5343, presented at the AIAA SPACE and Astronautics Forum and Exposition on 12 September 2017, by Salvatore Cezar Pais, whose affiliation on the record is Naval Air Systems Command. A search of the United States patent record for a document of this title returns nothing, and the three granted or published Pais filings are titled differently; the library’s working note calling this a patent application is corrected here. TEXT. The paper is closed access. The publisher’s site refuses automated requests, and Unpaywall, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, CORE and fatcat all report no repository copy and no abstract anywhere, so this page carries no reproduced text and no quoted abstract. SOURCES FOR THE CLAIMS. The first claim is from the bibliographic record. The remaining claims are read from the contemporaneous United States Navy patent by the same author on the same craft — Craft using an inertial mass reduction device, US10144532B2, a United States government document in the public domain — and each of those locators names that patent rather than this paper. That patent has its own page on this site at /library/stm-4678f2e210, and Pais’s fusion device and superconductor filings are at /library/stm-99473476f3 and /library/stm-ac45e5fd5e.

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Salvatore Cezar Pais (2017) A hybrid craft using an inertial mass modification device doi:10.2514/6.2017-5343

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