Military Applications of High-frequency Gravitational Waves

Résumé du livre

The following White Paper is divided into four parts: Benefits to the Military, Threats to National Security, Physics and Plan for Developing Working Prototype. It is important to recognize from the onset that, aside from communications, the military applications are theoretical. These applications can only be evaluated after the Proof-of-Concept Experiment, since prior to that there are many unanswerable questions. The physics, discussed in Section 3, however is sound and all applications have reasonable expectations. It should also be recognized that there have been some five decades of research concerning high-frequency gravitational waves (HFGWs)--most of them in the form of peer-reviewed publications in the open scientific literature. Three HFGW detectors have been built overseas already. Much of the prior research is described in the section concerning Physics and several dozen references are cited at the conclusion of this paper. Although most of the theoretical applications are stunning, the field of HFGW research is far from being science fiction. The plausibility of the theoretical applications cannot be adequately determined until after a proof-of concept test is successfully completed.