Ramifications of Einstein's Field Equations for Creating Advanced Propulsion Schemes

Abstract

The notion that one can go faster than the speed of light, travel in parallel universes, or even go back and forth in time is an interesting scientific conjecture. These activities require evaluation within Einstein’s field equations from an engineering perspective to possibly create a suitable propulsion system. A set of circumstances was uncovered that may lead to an anomalous gravitational distortion in what is normally referred to as the “vacuum field equation” in a near flat space-time continuum with no electric, magnetic or torsion fields. The distortion, possibly created by a gravitational vortex, is driven purely by the gravitational tensor. Additionally these field equations imply that unusual consequences may follow if one includes nonlinearities, off-diagonal terms in the gravitational or spacecontinuum tensors, more detailed boundary conditions as well as creating systems that enjoy over-unity performance. Depending upon definition of the curvature tensor, conditions for travel in a parallel universe, faster than light travel and past/future time travel may exist. The problem is to incorporate these capabilities within a design of a suitable propulsor to colonize and explore unknowns within the cosmos.