Antigravity Propulsion: Lift-Off and Surface-Satellite Criteria, a Pinch-Vortex Impeller and a Test Programme

Abstract

The Moon keeps a tier of its own about the Earth with a plenum influence parameter (PIP) of 4.9028 × 1012 m3 s−2; the International Space Station, whose own PIP is 2.8 × 10−5 m3 s−2, keeps its orbit only by its speed. This paper asks what PIP a laboratory body must be given, by rotation and by magnetism, to act as a satellite at the Earth's surface or to lift off, and it designs the apparatus that will find out. Within the Info-Magneto-Electrostatic (IME) framework, in which space is one medium on three levels and weight is the push of the plenum's radial in-flow, the criterion takes four forms. Referred to the Earth's centre, a body resting at Gurugram carries 1.06 × 1012 m3 s−2 from the Earth's rotation, 0.27 per cent of the 3.986 × 1014 m3 s−2 a surface satellite needs. Supplied by a rotor of radius rb, acceleration matching requires Φb = g rb2, reached by a 25 mm rotor at 189 rpm; velocity matching, the local form of the monograph 'IME Cosmos''s gated rotor law, requires a mean-square circulation speed of (7.90 km s−1)2, a solid rim at the escape speed, beyond any solid rotor and within reach of a rotating magnetic field at 25 to 50 kHz. A magnetic gate that scales with the ambient field to a power above one third makes a hovering body stable in height, and the corrected Chakra (Disc) balance gives 26.4 μT at the Earth's surface against a measured 29.8 μT. We design a pinch-vortex impeller that unites rotation and pinch in one homopolar circuit, specify five blinded experiments with the output each hypothesis predicts and the gates at which the programme proceeds, and give a phased equipment and sourcing plan.