Gravitational wave generator utilizing submicroscopic energizable elements

#This invention relates to the generation, refraction and detection of high-frequency gravitational waves that can be modulated and utilized for communications, propulsion and for the purpose of testing new physical and astronomical theories, concepts, and conjectures. More particularly the invention relates to the generation of gravitational waves (GW) by the interaction of submicroscopic energizing and energizable elements (molecules, atoms, nuclei, nuclear particles, electrons, photons, antiprotons, etc.). The invention also relates to the use of forces such as electromagnetic or nuclear to impart a third-time derivative or oscillatory motion to a mass consisting of a collection of submasses or mass-pairs of energizable elements such as target nuclei.

#The nuclear forces, which are approximately one-hundred times stronger than electromagnetic forces, are occasioned by the interaction of an energizing mechanism such as a submicroscopic particle beam with a collection of energizable elements such as target nuclei, which can be aligned with each other, or with another particle beam whose particles can also be aligned. Upon interaction with the particle beam or some other energizing mechanism, some of the nuclei are triggered by the impacting particles to produce a nuclear reaction thereby generating an impulse, that is, undergo a reactive jerk or a harmonic oscillation. The resulting reactive jerk or harmonic oscillation of the ensemble of target nuclei or other energizable elements acting in concert in turn generates a gravitational wave (GW).

#The general concept of the present invention is to simulate or emulate GW generated by energizable cel stial systems (rotating binary stars, star explosions, collapse to black holes, etc) by the use of micro, terrestrial energizable systems. Such terrestrial systems generate well over 40 orders of magnitude more force intensity (nuclear or electromagnetic compared to gravitational) and well over 12 orders of magnitude greater frequency (THz compared to 1 Hz or a small fraction of 1 Hz) than the celestial systems. Terrestrial energizable systems produce significant and useful GW according to the various embodiments of the present invention, even though they are orders of magnitude smaller than extra-terrestrial, celestial systems. In the various embodiments of the present invention the large number of small energizable elements are energized in a sequence or in concert by energizing elements emulating the motion of a much larger and extended body having a larger radius of gyration in order to enhance the generation of GW. The laboratory generation of GW was discussed by Pinto & Rotoli in General Relativity and Gravitational Physics, 1998, World Scientific, Singapore. They found (page 560) terrestrial laboratory GW generation to be “ . . . at the limit of the state of the art . . . ”, but they did not consider submicroscopic, specifically nuclear particles and associated forces and did not discuss the jerk mechanism for generating GW or computer control.

#FIG. 1A is a diagram of the impact of a particle beam 1 with a target mass 9 resulting in the generation of gravitational waves having axis 21.

#FIG. 1B is a diagram of bunches of particles 12 in a particle beam interacting with another incoming particle bunch 13 resulting in the generation of gravitational waves having an axis 21.

#FIG. 2 is a diagram of GW 21, passing through a medium that refract GW 34 and causes the GW to bend 35 as it traverses the surface of the medium 38 and can be focused.

#In FIG. 1A, in the preferred embodiment, an incoming particle beam 1 impacts a target mass 9 through its containment surface 23 resulting in a nuclear reaction or collision and the generation of GW exhibiting an axis 21, which can propagate radially or in either direction. The reaction or collision also produces back scattered particles 2, nuclear reaction products 3 moving in the preferred direction of target nuclei alignment 22, high-energy photons 4 (for example, x-ray emissions) also moving primarily in the preferred direction 22, sputtered particles 7, and recoil atoms 8. A typical target atom 11 when impacted by the particle beam is jerked by the release of nuclear-reaction products or by collision or by other means and produce GW similar to or in simulation of a sub-microscopic star explosion or collapse discussed by Geoff Burdge, Deputy Director for Technology and Systems of the National Security Agency, written communication dated Jan. 19, 2000 and incorporated herein by reference. This axis is described and illustrated co-pending patent application, Ser. No. 09/616,683, filed Jul. 14, 2000, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,417,597. In the case of nuclear-reaction-produced jerks, the radius of gyration at the reactants is significantly smaller than the GW wavelength so that the quadrupole approximation holds. The energizing process can also result in harmonic oscillation or a quadrupole radiator. In this case the GW propagates radially or cylindrically as discussed by Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen (1937, Journal of the Franklin Institute, 223, pp. 43-54). The target's characteristic length, absorption depth, or approximate radius of gyration of the extensive emulated target mass 10 is utilized in the quadrupole approximation to compute the power of the GW that is generated.

#In FIG. 1B, the particle bunches 12 are shown impacting or colliding with an incoming particle bunch 13 of another particle beam at a collision angle 14, which could be any value including zero. In this case, the incoming target bunch is contemplated to be spin-polarized noble gas, such as helium II or odd-nuclear isotopes of xenon, etc. in order to exhibit a preferred direction in space 22.

#In FIG. 2 is exhibited a medium in which the GW speed is reduced 34, the new direction of GW 35 caused by the GW passing through a boundary of a medium 38 at an oblique angle 36 with respect to a normal to the surface of such a medium 37 produces GW refraction. The back surface of the medium in which the GW speed is again changed 39 is shown, but for clarity no refractive bending of the GW is exhibited. Examples of suitable media are superconducting media.