Historical research guide · 0322 · 2023
Method for Creating a Rapidly Changing Energy Shell of Quantum Fluctuations About Masses for Acceleration Without Mass Ejection
Glen A. Robertson
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Glen Robertson’s 2023 patent application proposes acceleration without mass ejection. It calls the thin field around every mass an “energy shell of quantum fluctuations” and models its forward and aft sides as opposing Casimir cavities. In Robertson’s model, an energy difference across the shell accelerates the mass away from the higher-energy side. The apparatus is a three-layer capacitor: an outer dielectric without an outer electrode, an AC capacitor, and a grounded DC capacitor. Alternating current is intended to change only the outer shell, producing the asymmetry. Mirrored stacks around a cavity or in hull quadrants would direct thrust while screening the interior. The filing calls for a selected dielectric such as a metamaterial, electret, leaky dielectric, or Josephson-junction superconductor. It gives a design and model; it does not report a thrust test or crewed craft.
Connection
This is chapter 8’s question — how do you accelerate without reaction mass and without the crew feeling it — answered as a filed engineering drawing rather than a thought experiment, and it reaches that answer through chapter 3’s route, treating inertia and gravity as effects of the field around a mass. The dielectric it needs is the same shopping list chapter 11 keeps arriving at: metamaterials, electrets, and superconductors carrying Josephson junctions.
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Every mass carries a thin energy shell of quantum fluctuations on its surface whose thickness equals the wavelength of the quantum energy in it; along the line of travel the two sides behave like two opposing Casimir cavities, and when one side holds more quantum energy than the other the mass accelerates away from the higher-energy side.Background; Model, Equations 1 to 4
The acceleration follows from the difference in the density of the quantum energy field across the shell, as the geometric factor times the difference between the aft and forward densities, times the Newtonian gravitational constant, times the radius of the dominant local gravitational mass — with the constant Q equal to about 9.268 × 10⁵² m⁴/s² tied directly to G.Model, Equations 1, 2 and 4
A three-layer stack — an electrostatic capacitor whose dielectric deliberately has no outer electrode, on an AC capacitor, on a DC capacitor whose far face is earth ground — produces the asymmetry, because the oscillating displacement current in the bare dielectric is the accelerated quantum energy field.Summary; Claim 1; FIG. 1
Time dilation and retardation between the two faces is the key feature: a reaction time equal to the change in shell radius divided by the speed of light is induced between the shell at the electrodeless surface and the shell at the ground surface, so the outer shell changes while the grounded shell does not.Theory, before Equation 5
Two of the stacks, mirrored and firmly joined with a cavity between them, accelerate together while no quantum energy field change occurs inside the cavity, so objects in that cavity feel nothing from the capacitor systems and experience no inertia from the acceleration of the craft.Claim 7; FIG. 4; FIG. 6
The outer dielectric must have unusual properties for the retardation to occur at all — a purpose-built metamaterial, a leaky dielectric with small conductivity, an electret, or a superconductor carrying one or more Josephson junction layers — and identifying that material is the open question the design turns on.Prior Art; Claims 2 to 5 and 8 to 11
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Glen A. Robertson (2023) Method for Creating a Rapidly Changing Energy Shell of Quantum Fluctuations About Masses for Acceleration Without Mass Ejection US20230080413