The paper entitled Coupled Gravitational Fields A New Paradigm for Propulsion Science, was presented at the 46th Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit, 26-28 July 2010, Nashville, TN, and published as paper AIAA-2010-NFF-1 by the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics. The paper was given by Len Japngie, Washington, D.C.
In this work progress is reported on the understanding of the physical mechanism of the conversion of electromagnetic into gravitational fields which seems to be the key to the experimentally produced extreme gravitomagnetic fields that are clearly outside general relativity. A detailed discussion of conservation principles is also performed. Furthermore, by applying the concept of three gravitational fields, it is argued that, in contrast to the circumferential gravity-like fields observed in the experiments at AIT, gravity-like fields of substantial magnitude acting parallel to the axis of the rotating cryogenic disk may be producible that have the potential to establish a propellantless space transportation technology, but also may have significant repercussions for earth bound transportation systems in general as well as green energy generation.

The paper entitled Emerging Physics for Novel Space Propulsion Science, was presented at SPACE,PROPULSION & ENERGY SCIENCES INTERNATIONAL FORUM SPESIF-2010 at John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 23-25 February 2010 and published by the American Institute of Physics.
The paper discusses the application of novel gravity-like fields to space propulsion and compares theoretical results for theses fields with experiments of Dr. M. Tajmar et al. at the Austrian Institute of Technology.

Prof. J. Hauser presented the paper entitled Gravitational Field Propulsion (AIAA 2008-5069, 20 pages) at the 45th Joint Propulsion Conference, 2-5 August 2009, Denver, CO organized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
The phenomenological physical concepts presented at the meeting, summarized under the name of Extended Heim Theory, EHT, predict two groups of matter. The first group, ordinary matter (OM), is describing all messenger particles (gauge bosons) that is, graviton, photon, vector bosons, and gluons as well as all known types of matter, i.e., leptons and quarks. The gauge bosons comprise the four known fundamental forces. However, these forces are not sufficient to explain the results observed in the gravitomagnetic experiments at AIT (Tajmar et al.), Austria, nor do they account for dark matter or dark energy.
The second group, derived from the construction of the so called polymetric tensor of EHT, comprises non-ordinary matter (NOM), which is matter in the form of imaginary electrons, positrons, or quarks (virtual particles of imaginary mass, but real charge) as well as stable neutral leptons, which might be identified with dark matter.
It is surmised that charged imaginary particles might be generated at very low temperatures (phase transition), and subsequently be transformed into the three gravitational particles postulated by EHT, namely the gravitophoton (resulting from photon conversion), the graviton (attractive, which accounts for Newtonian gravitation), and the quintessence particle (repulsive, which might be associated with dark energy). This interaction of electromagnetism with gravitation might be the cause for the measured strong gravitomagnetic fields that are about 18 orders of magnitude larger than predicted by general relativity, and thus are outside general relativity.


Note: Page 6, Table 3 mentions the Higgs field. New considerations lead to the conclusion that six Higgs and six anti-Higgs fields should exist, represented by the group O(2,q) where q denotes quarternions. page 18: The electric current should be 8 A instead of 13.6 A. The mass of 3.5 x 10³ kg is the mass placed above the rotating disk. The total spacecraft mass is assumed to be 150 x 10³ kg.

Dr. Hauser delivered a lecture entitled Emerging Physics for Novel Field Propulsion ( Flyer, LectureTitlePage, LectureSummary) at the Aerospace Museum of California, McClellan, CA on invitation of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Sacramento Chapter. EHT (Extended Heim Theory) postulates the existence of six fundamental interactions (three of them of gravitational nature, both attractive and repulsive) as well as the existence of ordinary and non-ordinary matter. NOM particles may be virtual particles of imaginary mass and real charge or particles of negative energy density (generated in pairs) and there may also be neutral leptons (e.g. a neutral tau particle might exist, possible candidate for dark matter particle around 1.8 GeV ?). Interaction field propulsion would be one application for space flight, but the generation of green energy based on the two additional gravity-like fields (as might have been observed in the experiments at ARC, Seibersdorf, Austria by Dr. Tajmar et al.) may be an even more rewarding option.

Prof. Jochem Häuser presented three invited lectures at the two European meetings PET08, 1st Peer Training (for young researchers), 21-22 October 2008 and MASCOT08, 8th Meeting on Applied Scientific Computing and Tools, 23-25 October 2008, held at the Instituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo (IAC)-Centro Nationale di Ricerca (CNR), Viale del Policlinico 137, Roma, Italy.
The conference programs can be downloaded: PET08 and MASCOT08.
If you are interested in obtaining individual lectures, please contact Dr. Rosa-Maria Spitaleri IAC.
The conferences were sponsored by IMACS (International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Profs. R. Beauwens, R. Vichnevetsky) and ISGG (International Society of Grid Generation, Prof. Bharat Soni). IMACS News gives a brief summary of the conferences.
The title pages of the three lectures can be downloaded: ESA-Expert, DSMC-Monte-Carlo, and Magneto-Hdyrodynamics.
To obtain a copy of the presentations please contact Prof. Jochem Häuser.

Computersimulation in Engineering (CI)
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc)

1. Review of Critical Aerothermodynamics Issues for Space Vehicle Design
2. In Flight Research on Aerothermodynamics (ATD) and Thermal Protection Systems (TPS) for Space Transportation Systems

Vortrag 1: 09:45 - 10:30
Vortrag 2: 10:30 - 11:15
Fragen und Diskussion: 11:15 - 11:30
Ort: Gebäude A, Raum A.EG.43
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Gravity-Like Fields for Space Propulsion in a Nutshell

During the last 18 months substantial progress has been made in the generation of gravity-like fields.
This concerns both experimental as well as the encompassing theoretical research.

The experiments by M. Tajmar, first announced on ESA's webpage on 23 March 2006, have lead to a paradigm-shift whose key elements seem to be based on condensed matter phenomena.
Recently, US aerospace industry has decided to conduct a study to explore the technical possibilities of gravity-like fields.
This text, therefore, is written to serve as a timely non-technical introduction to tell about both the novel experiments and the novel theoretical background.

In order to answer numerous e-mails that posed similar questions and to clarify some misconceptions, check the text below as well as the Nutshell Summary attached.

We regret, but it is not always possible to answer all e-mail messages personally because of time constraints.

The Nutshell article gives a summary in non-mathematical form of the current experimental and theoretical state of the art in the research of novel gravity-like fields ( also noted as artificial gravitational fields). These fields are of particular interest in (space) transportation, because they could serve as enabling technology for a completely different transportation principle. In addition, ground transportation might not need wheels anymore.

This article was also written on the request of the chairman of the Committee of Nuclear and Future Flight Propulsion (NPFF) of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and was sent to committee members on 31 August 2007.

The Nutshell article aims to clarify the relationship between the experiments of the group of M. Tajmar, ARC Seibersdorf, Austria, and the recent set of experiments of R. D. Graham et al., University of Canterbury,Christchurch, New Zealand.

It is a misconception to assume that there is a contradiction between these two sets of experiments! Their papers need to be read completely, not only the introduction!

In both cases a gravitomagnetic field was measured, about 30 orders of magnitude higher than predicted by the Lense-Thirring effect of general relativity. Although the term super frame dragging is used in these papers, it is a misunderstanding to attribute the experimental results to the phenomenon of frame dragging!

The denotation super frame dragging needs to be understood in its historic context, because, when experiments began in 2003 at ARC, it was believed that the concept of frame dragging could be utilized to explain results. Since the phenomena observed are about 30 orders of magnitude higher, they are clearly outside general relativity, and cannot be explained by frame dragging. It should be noted that there is also a third experiment, namely the NASA-Stanford Gravity Probe B experiment, which deserves to be investigated. In this experiment two pairs of niobium coated superconducting rotating quartz spheres (gyros, 38mm diameter) are used. If the effects measured by Tajmar and Graham are real, a spin-spin interaction between two rotating gyros should have led to a large (compared to frame dragging) spin drift. The Nutshell article also describes theoretical (http://www.hpcc-space.de/publications ) physical models, utilized to compute the observed effects and to describe the (novel) physics behind these phenomena.

This is the final conference program for the 10 th Numerical Grid Generation Conference, 16-20 September 2007, FORTH Crete, Greece This is now the 10 th Numerical Grid Generation Conference, co-organized by Prof. Häuser which was started by him in 1985.
The field has emerged substantially since these 22 years, but the problem of automated grid design for complex geometries remains as a major challenge and the most time consuming part in the field of computer simulation.
Please check our web page for the publication of the proceedings, in case you cannot attend the conference. Looking forward to seeing you on Crete!
ISGG Program (pdf)

In two recent papers M. Tajmar et al., ARC Seibersdorf , Austria (27 July, 2007, http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3806) and R.D. Graham et al. (6 July 2007, www2.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/~physrin/papers/SuperFrameDragging2007.pdf) University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand have reported measuring artificial gravitational fields (AGF), generated by a rotating superconducting niobium ring and lead disk, respectively. The effect occurred, when the ring or disk were subjected to angular acceleration. Since measured signals were about 30 orders of magnitude larger than predicted from the frame dragging effect of general relativity (GR, Lense-Thirring 1918, see also Gravity Probe B experiment), GR cannot be used to explain these experiments. The AGF had rotational character, pointing in the circumferential direction of the ring or disk. A theoretical explanation is given in our recent AIAA 2007-5595 paper (8 July 2007). Our theory is termed Extended Heim Theory (EHT), since the geometrization principle of the late German physicist B. Heim (1952, the Italian mathematician B. Finzi suggested a similar principle in 1955) is employed. EHT leads to six fundamental forces in Nature. Moreover, as outlined in the paper, according to EHT, a modified experiment should result in an AGF directed along the axis of rotation, while the disk is rotating at constant speed. If this proposition turns out to be true, a revolutionary space propulsion technology could be possible. Furthermore, the field of transportation in general would be changed dramatically. However, before any final conclusions can be drawn, substantial additional research in both experiment and theory is needed.
Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof!

As co-chairman of the 10th ISGG Grid generation Conference on Numerical Grid Generation, September 16-20, FORTH, Crete, Greece you are encouraged to attend this event. In case you wish to submit an abstract, please send it directly to Prof. Jochem Hauser, jh@hpcc-space.de, by 21 July 2007.

In its 15 May 2007 issue the well known German weekly paper Die Zeit published an article (http://images.zeit.de/text/2007/21/T-Antigravitation) entitled Das Ende der Schwere (The End of Gravity) reporting about the recent experiments by Dr. M. Tajmar and his colleagues, ARC Seibersdorf, Austria on the generation of artificial gravitational fields (AGF). We would like to point out that this article contains the same two misconceptions as the previous article published by the magazine PM, see our remarks from 20 March.

We believe that there is a good chance that Dr. M. Tajmar (an excellent experimenter and serious scientist) and his colleagues are correct, having actually produced AGFs, also termed gravito-magnetic field (GMF), in the laboratory. In contrast, the work by Podkletnov, who is also mentioned in the Zeit article, has no credibility at all.

The Zeit article, however, misses the point on two aspects. First, the artificial gravitational field as measured by Dr.Tajmar et al. is produced by a small, rotating superconducting Niobium ring, being subjected to angular acceleration or deceleration that is, its angular frequency (rpm) changes. Only while the ring is accelerated or decelerated, the AGF exists. The AGF measured lies in the plane of the rotating superconducting ring, has rotational character and is acting against the mechanical acceleration, obeying some kind of gravitational Lenz rule. In other words, the AGF tries to slow down or to speed up the ring, respectively. It therefore cannot be used as a propulsion principle for a UFO as mentioned in the Zeit article. Second, as we also wrote in our remarks concerning the PM article, General Relativity cannot be used to explain the existence of the AGF as measured by Dr. Tajmar. The so called frame dragging phenomenon, as predicted by GR, is more than 20 orders of magnitude smaller, and cannot be observed in the laboratory using the small mass of the superconducting ring. New physics would be needed to explain these experiments

Since 2002 we published several papers on a theory termed Extended Heim Theory (EHT) that predicts six fundamental forces in Nature (two additional gravitational interactions that may be responsible for dark matter and dark energy). EHT was used to analyze Dr. Tajmar's experiments, and good agreement between EHT and experiment was obtained (see our note from 23 April). Moreover, EHT provides additional guidelines for a so called gravito-magnetic space propulsion experiment. If EHT is correct, the AGF generated in this experiment would be directed along the axis of rotation of the disk or ring rotating with constant angular frequency. If this experiment turns out to be true, then it would be justified to write about The End of Gravity.

Prof. Hauser presented an invited talk at the 7th Launcher Symposium in Barcelona, 2-5 April 2007 on Current Research in Gravito-Magnetic Space Propulsion (This version of paper O-42 has been slightly corrected with regard to the submitted one). The paper presents theoretical and experimental results. In particular, the newest experiments by Tajmar et al.are compared with the predictions of EHT. The interested reader is also referred to an interview that Dr. Tajmar gave to the German radio station DRadio (manuscript: and audio file).

In its March 2007 issue the popular German magazine P.M. (URL P.M.) published an article on the experimental generation of artificial gravitational fields. The experiments were conducted by Dr. Martin Tajmar (URL Tajmar) and his colleagues at the Austrian Research Center in Seibersdorf , close to Vienna.
If Dr. Tajmar and his colleagues are right, an artificial gravitational field, termed gravito-magnetic field, would have been generated for the first time in the laboratory. Dr. Tajmar is known as a scrupulous experimenter, and has repeated these experiments with increasing accuracy over the last three years. There is, therefore, a high probability that his work may turn out to be correct. The article is, however, incorrect in two aspects, namely General Relativity cannot be used to explain the artificial gravitational field measured by Dr. Tajmar. The so called frame dragging phenomenon, as predicted by GR, is more than 20 orders of magnitude smaller, and cannot be observed using a small test mass on earth.
Second, his experiment cannot be used to build a space propulsion system, since the artificial acceleration field is in the plane of the rotating superconducting Niobium ring that is, in circumferential direction only. Furthermore, it only occurs when the rotating ring is subjected to angular acceleration, and acts against this acceleration, obeying some kind of gravitational Lenz rule.
From the theoretical side, Extended Heim Theory (EHT), see our News of 10 April and 24 August 2006, has predicted such an effect as an outcome of six fundamental forces in Nature (two additional gravitational interactions), and also can be used to devise an experiment that would serve as a demonstrator for a gravito-magnetic propulsion system, i.e., the force would be in the direction of the rotating ring or disk.

Preprint of peer reviewed paper AIAA-2007-1112 to be presented at 45th American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, 8 - 11 Jan 2007, Reno, NV, USA. The paper describes the integration of an Euler solver and MHD solver with the JUST (Java Ultra Simulator Technology) multi-physics platform and shows 2D and 3D results for multi-block domains.

Spacetime Physics and Advanced Propulsion Concepts (remarks). As a follow up of the recent AIAA JCP meeting in July, a revised version of our invited AIAA 2006-4608 paper can be downloaded ( 5Mb,pdf)

New Book on Numerical Grid Generation available: Selected Papers from 9th International Conference, June 12-15, 2005 on Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulations Published by International Society of Grid Generation ISGG Eds. P. Papadopoulos, J. Häuser, P. Eisemann, J. Thompson, B. Soni, R.-M. Spitaleri order through ISGG

Extended Heim Theory, Physics of Spacetime, and Field Propulsion In this non-mathematical overview we present a very brief introduction to some of the basic physical assumptions of Extended Heim Theory (EHT) as developed by Heim and Dröscher. We also explain the differences to the original 6-dimensional theory of Heim. These differences may be substantial, and we will show that a completely different picture of physical interactions is the result. EHT predicts six fundamental physical interactions. Heim had adopted Dröscher's idea of a 12-dimensional internal symmetry space from which the polymetric tensor, describing physical interactions, has to be constructed. Together with Dröscher, he published the book Strukturen der physikalischen Welt und ihrer nichtmateriellen Seite, Resch Verlag, 1996, Innsbruck, in which the physical consequences of this 12-dimensional internal space are discussed. Unfortunately, because of his failing health, Heim could not any more accomplish the task of rewriting his first two volumes on Elementarstrukturen der Materie, Resch Verlag, Innsbruck. The notes below are an excerpt from a forthcoming paper and are only a beginning ( pdf 207kB).

Our research work on advanced propulsion systems based on field propulsion (Heim theory) was described in a popular article by New Scientist, 7-13 January 2006.
However, not everything described there should be taken literally. The theoretical work is highly speculative, and it is not sure that there are three gravitational interactions in Nature as predicted by us. On the other hand, the benefits would be enormous if six fundamental physical interactions existed in Nature.

Dr. Häuser presented an invited lecture and paper on Advanced Propulsion (Magnetohydrodynamics and Heim Theory) at Sarod 8-9 December 2005, Hyderabad, India. Proceedings published as: Recent Trends in Aerospace Design and Optimization, SAROD-2005, ed. B. Uthup, ISBN 0-07-060829-6, Tata Mc Graw-Hill, 2005.

Magnet Experiment to Measuring Space Propulsion Heim-Lorentz Force ( pdf, 3.4 MB) Institut für Grenzgebiete der Wissenschaft, Leopold - Franzens Universität Innsbruck, Austria
Faculty Karl-Scharfenberg, University of Applied Sciences, Salzgitter, Germany
41st AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit,Tucson,Arizona,
10-13 July,2005

As of June 1, 2005 Prof. Häuser was elected Visiting Scholar by the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Dept. of San Jose State University, California

Vorlesung "Kinder-Uni in der Junior-Uni" zum Thema "Raumfahrt - Was ist das?"
Inhalte: Physikalische Grundlagen, Antriebstechniken, Simulation und Forschung in der Raumfahrt (a4, pdf ,1.6MB)

Verleihung eines Forschungspreises am 13. Juli 2005 in Tuscon, Arizona durch das American Institute of  Aeronautics  und Astronautics an Walter Dröscher, IGW, Universität Innsbruck und Prof. Jochem Häuser für ihre Arbeiten zu neuen Raumfahrtantrieben.
The paper entitled " Guidelines for a Space Propulsion Device Based on Heim's Quantum Theory" AIAA Paper 2004-3700, has been named the 2004 AIAA Best Paper by the AIAA Nuclear and Future Flight TechnicalCommittee