Historical research guide · 0042 · 1981
Anti-Gravity with Present Technology: Implementation and Theoretical Foundation
Frederick E. Alzofon
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Frederick E. Alzofon presented this at the 1981 Joint Propulsion Conference while at Boeing Aerospace. He models a gravitational field as virtual subatomic processes around matter, whose mean energy sets the field’s strength. In his proposal, dynamic nuclear orientation changes that mean energy: aluminium with iron inclusions sits in a steady magnetic field and receives a pulsed oscillating field. The paper specifies a field of about 660 oersted, two-microsecond pulses, a two- to six-millisecond duty cycle and the material composition. Alzofon connects those parameters to a vehicle concept and says the experiment should be performed. Part II develops a unified-field treatment with added potentials, a static-mass inverse-square limit and a different account of quantum-field zero-point energy. This guide keeps the proposed mechanism, parameters and calculation tied to their locations in the paper.
Connection
Chapter 11 contains an experimental proposal when the material, field strength, pulse timing, claimed energy scale and readout are all in the record. It can be reconstructed as a parameterized apparatus—the paper's starting point rather than a generic lesson statement.
From the source
Alzofon proposes a semi-empirical model of the processes leading to the gravitational field, based on accepted features of subatomic processes — the annihilation and creation of matter-energy shared by all of them — formulated in semi-classical terms so that it can be treated by analogy with the classical theory of gases.Abstract; Part I, Section 1.1
By using the analogue of processes occurring in cryogenics it is possible to reduce the mean energy of the random virtual processes asserted to be responsible for the gravitational field, and therefore to reduce the gravitational force; the same model suggests a method of increasing it.Abstract; Part I, Section 1.0
The practical route is dynamic nuclear orientation applied to a specimen of aluminium with iron inclusions: a fixed magnetic field of about 660 oersted with a pulsed oscillating field, pulses lasting two microseconds on a duty cycle of two to six milliseconds. Because the virtual states are far shorter-lived than nuclear thermal relaxation times, the effect should be obtainable at temperatures much higher than conventional nuclear orientation requires.Part I, Sections 2.1–2.4, Experiment Parameters and Comments
On Alzofon's own estimate, with a ratio of about one iron nucleus to ten aluminium nuclei, of the order of one joule of gravitational energy could be removed per duty cycle — against the 6.3 × 10⁸ joules of gravitational energy per gram of mass at the Earth's surface.Part I, Section 2.4
The generated field is expected to reduce the vehicle's inertial mass to some extent as well, so that very high velocities and accelerations become possible and no large take-off acceleration is required.Part I, Section 2.5, Vehicle Design
The unified field theory in Part II exhibits inertial mass, gravitational mass and the electromagnetic field as different states of the same field, recovers the inverse-square law of gravitational attraction for static mass distributions with no permanent charges or currents, and eliminates the infinite zero-point energy of the quantum mechanics of fields, giving it a new interpretation.Abstract; Part II
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https://doi.org/10.2514/6.1981-1608How to cite it
Frederick E. Alzofon (1981) Anti-Gravity with Present Technology: Implementation and Theoretical Foundation doi:10.2514/6.1981-1608