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December 10th, 2009

A Blueprint for a Quantum Propulsion Machine

Abstract:
Push on the electromagnetic fields in the quantum vacuum and you should get an equal and opposite force.

In recent years, a new way of thinking about the quantum vacuum has emerged which has vastly more potential. And today, one physicist describes how it could be used to create propulsion.

Today, Alex Feigel at the Soreq Nuclear Research Center, a government lab in Yavne Israel, suggests an entirely new way to modify the momentum of the quantum vacuum and how this can be exploited to generate propulsion.

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