Advanced and emerging propulsion technologies, including warp-drives, field-effect, the Searl Effect, hypersonics and more.
Podkletnov’s Four Gravity Control Experiments
In the 1990s, Dr. Eugene Podkletnov drew international attention with a rotating superconductor that appeared to weaken gravity. The headlines faded, but his pursuit of gravity control did not. Over the decades that…
Viktor Grebennikov’s Beetle Wing Levitation
Viktor Grebennikov was a Siberian entomologist with a gift for seeing grandeur in the smallest forms of life who claimed that the hidden underside of an beetle wing revealed a microscopic architecture so extraordinary…
Mars In 30 Days? Rosatom’s New Plasma Drive Could Make It Possible
In a vacuum chamber on Earth, a bright pulse of plasma can look like a science exhibit. In space, that same controlled violence could become a new kind of highway: a steady, efficient push that keeps working long after…
Warp Drives and the Multiverse
For most of human history, “going farther” has meant going faster—first with sails, then with steam, then with engines that burn and roar. In Daniel Davis’s lecture on warp drives and the multiverse, that familiar story…
Warp-Assisted Hypersonics: Engineering the Shock Layer
At the edge of the atmosphere’s ordinary rules, air stops behaving like air. Molecules tear apart, electrons slip free, and a hypersonic vehicle acquires a luminous boundary layer that can swallow radio signals and…
The One-G Standard for Human Spaceflight
A One-G Standard for human spaceflight would do something deceptively simple: make the cruise phase feel Earth-normal. With constant one-g acceleration, “artificial gravity” comes from thrust—not heavy, complex rotating…
Direct Fusion Drive to Mars: The Starfire Architecture for Fast Human Transit
Sixty-four days to Mars isn’t a slogan—it’s a design constraint disguised as a destination. In Layla Mohsen’s telling, Princeton Satellite Systems’ Direct Fusion Drive concept isn’t chasing speed for bragging rights;…
Biefeld-Brown Effect Explained? Tom Valone, Electrogravitics, and Jefimenko’s Causal Fields
In the breakthrough-propulsion world, high voltage gets all the glamour—big capacitors, big arcs, big claims. Tom Valone’s most interesting move is almost the opposite: the action is argued to live in the edge, in the…
Electrogravitics Engineering: Tom Valone’s Experimental Playbook for High-Voltage Propulsion
Electrogravitics is one of those rare engineering rabbit holes where the hardware looks almost too simple—plates, dielectrics, sharp edges, high voltage—yet the meaning people attach to it keeps multiplying. Put the…
The Hunt for Zero Point: 25 Years Later
In January 2001, aerospace journalist Nick Cook—former aviation editor at Jane’s Defence Weekly—published a book on secret government projects that left an indelible mark on aerospace culture. Over time, it also became…