Christopher Bremner

Christopher Bremner
Known for	"Large-Scale Sakharov Condition" (with David Noever)
Scientific career
Fields	Propulsion physics, vacuum energy
Institutions	NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Christopher Bremner is a researcher known for work, carried out with David Noever, on proposals to relate quantum-vacuum (zero-point) energy to gravity and propulsion. He is listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.

Work

Bremner co-authored, with David Noever of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, the paper "Large-Scale Sakharov Condition," presented at the 35th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit in 1999 (AIAA paper 1999-2146). The work draws on Andrei Sakharov's 1968 conjecture that gravitation may arise from changes in the zero-point energy of the vacuum, and on the Casimir effect — the attractive force between two closely spaced uncharged plates attributed to vacuum energy — to explore whether such vacuum-energy effects might be realised or exploited on larger scales.

The paper appeared in the context of speculative "breakthrough propulsion" and new-energy research, a field that lies outside mainstream physics and has been met with skepticism because proposals to extract usable energy or thrust from the quantum vacuum are widely regarded as unproven.

External links

• "Large-Scale Sakharov Condition" (AIAA, 1999)
• Large-Scale Sakharov Condition (ResearchGate)