In the short version of the paper, "Advanced Propulsion Systems from Artificial Gravitational Fields", Walter Dröscher and Jochem Hauser discussed how they would reconfigure Tajmar's apparatus to reflect one of their earlier designs that had previously employed fermionic coupling under a 25 Tesla magnetic field.

Their paper was published through the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics as document AIAA 2006-4608 in August of 2006. But only now, it seems, are Dröscher, Hauser and Tajmar collaborating on a combined paper that will (apparently) address how combining D & H's z-axis configuration for improved field propulsion with Tajmar's bosonic coupling approach could provide a rapid way forward to gMOD.

What does this mean?

In contrast to Tajmar's device which produced a field tangental the axis of rotation, D & H's configuration would generate a gravitational field acting parallel to the axis of rotation of the rotating ring and "thus can serve as a field propulsion principle". In short, rather than Tajmar's 200 meter rotating ring to provide 1g of lift, a coil half a meter in diameter with 4 square meters of surface area rotating at 200 meters per second is calculated to be able to lift itself from the surface of the Earth... IF it employs bosonic coupling. This interaction between electromagnetism and gravitation is predicted by EHT (Extended Heim Theory), of which D & H are the primary authors.

Even though Tajmar has (very conservatively) spoken of generating a milli-g of acceleration within five years, Dröscher and Hauser's configuration would make Tajmar's configuration 3 orders of magnitude more efficient. No news yet on the expected publication date for early drafts of the paper, but with the testing currently going on at EarthTech with Dr. Tajmar in attendance is it any wonder why some in the physics community are holding their collective breath?

©2008 Gregory Daigle