History UVITOR: A New Paradigm in Transportation and Energy Mankind has long sought the most efficient means to transport people and cargo. In this era of jet aircraft and space flight, the next step for mankind is to move beyond the nearest objects (the moon, Mars, etc) and to explore other planets, as well as to actually leave our solar system to examine other stellar entities. To achieve this daunting goal, there must be a radical shift in the way we view the world and transportation. Some of the most daunting challenges facing aerospace scientists are: to discover new propulsion methods which either eliminate or drastically reduce the need for propellant, to discover methods to achieve the shortest possible travel times and to discover new modes of on-board energy generation to power spacecraft. It is with these challenges in mind that Dr. Gennady Shipov, a Russian physicist, and his team developed the 4-D Warp Engine, a state of the art project for v-teleportation of a macro system. The prototype of the 4-D warp engine creates a twist and curve in space-time in front of itself and "falls" into it. The theoretical foundation for this type of motion is called v-teleportation by vacuum metric engineering and operation of warp and the local space-time continuum. Vacuum metric teleportation occurs when the vehicle/object teleports itself due to changes in the local space-time metric. The system is both guided and monitored by computer software programs developed using Dr. Shipov's pioneering equations. Although it sounds like science fiction, this is the first step towards topological teleportation, when an object "falls" into a "wormhole" and appears in a different space-time point. It is also an answer to the antigravity problem of space travel, as the engine is able to operate without the use of friction and with no interaction with any other medium. A future project will target the development of a prototype that will be controlled and guided vertically. In addition, this breakthrough technology is exciting not only because of its obvious advantage for space travel. The principles discovered in this research can be universally applied to other types of vehicles, as well. So, the 4-D warp engine can be used to power conventional land vehicles, marine craft, etc. Advantages of this type of propulsion include: The ability to instantly change direction and speed

No breaks in the motion and no starter required

Movement is due to the control of the local properties of the space-time continuum

Movement occurs without reaction to friction or mass

Movement is more efficient than with conventional vehicles

Able to move in any media (on land or water, under water, in the air or space)

Less fuel is used, an important consideration for long distance space travel

Increase in energy efficiency (jet engine 2-10% vs. 4-D warp engine 40-60%)

Increased speed and traveling distance

Less harmful impact on the environment

Decreased overall weight of the transportation system The potential market for the 4-D warp engine is quite extensive. Potential customers include all segments of the aerospace industry, manufacturers of automobiles and other ground transportation, marine and submarine vehicles, as well as manufacturers of general industrial equipment. The development of this revolutionary technology is at a critical stage. There are currently working prototypes in the Uvitor laboratories in Bangkok which operate on a maximum frictionless surface or in water. The results of experiments on the prototypes have been particularly encouraging. However, there is still much to be done to bring this revolutionary method of transport to fruition. What is needed now are investors, partners or financiers with foresight and courage, unique individuals or institutions who do not simply say "it can't be done", but rather dream of what can be reality one day soon. Remember, they all told the Wright brothers "it will never get off the ground". Background to the New Paradigm Imagining a car moving at 800-900 km/h and instantly changing direction without changing its velocity is not difficult for us today. Hollywood and special effects have contributed to this. We watch fantasy planes and spaceships in films and we are not surprised by their piloting skills and maneuverability, although such vehicles do not exist in reality. Yet! However, what is being built by the UVITOR scientists is shifting current technology to a new level: a propulsion system (based on new principles) to move physical objects without propellers, wheels, internal combustion engines or other external devices, and without reacting on any external media (for example, propellers push the air back or wheels react with road surfaces). Patents have been filed in Europe and Thailand for a self-action device. Technologies today are developing at such speed people are not able to keep up with them. Time is running faster than we are. It is important not to lose a moment when opportunity appears to shift to a new level allowing a breakthrough in technological development. Industry is open to positive innovations that are economical and simplify manufacturing processes. The critical issue is to initiate the technological improvement. Progress will not permit it to stop. These new technologies generally become possible due to a small circle of likeminded friends, who share their ideas and efforts and are willing to invest their own time and money for the benefit of all humanity. Marina Alexandrovna Lobova, Vice President of the Thai Russian Association of Technology and Economic Development, and Gennady Ivanovich Shipov along with his team of Russian scientists are such people. Today, they have several patents and know-how that have no comparison: the 4-dimensional wrap drive, the simplest rotator oscillator, and the 4-dimensional engine generator, built by v-metric engineering. These discoveries are based on new breakthroughs in fundamental physics. At the end of the 60's, Shipov became interested in searching for a solution to the Unified Field Theory. His former scientific supervisor, Professor Rem Victorovich Kholov warned that although he might discover something new in this field, he would be working the rest of his life to prove his position. The theory of physical vacuum proposed by Shipov explained our world and its numerous manifestations with the help of formulas and strict scientific logic and offered a solution to the Program Minimum and Program Maximum of Albert Einstein. Based on this theory, special structures (torsion fields, created by the rotation of bodies) were investigated and described. It was found that these fields are not affected by distance and spread instantaneously in space. Torsion fields interact with material objects by exchanging information. Shipov and Lobova met in the mid 90's and the idea to initiate a project to investigate the 4-dimensional engine was born. This project opens new horizons in the creation of the next generation of automobiles and other means of transportation with reduced energy consumption, as well as higher speed and safety. In 1999, Lobova, with Shipov and 10 Russian scientists, established a research laboratory in Thailand. Throughout 8 months of the following year, investigations and trials of several models of 4-dimensional engines were successfully performed. In 2002, the Thai Russian Association for Technology and Economic Development was established. Its purpose is to achieve understanding and cooperation between Russian and Thai scientists and businesspeople. Within its framework, UVITOR (Universal Vacuum Inertial Torsion Technologies) was implemented. The project has now reached the third stage of its development, where from the point of view of contemporary physics, the motion of the propulsion system looks as if it controls the sign and value of mass. The next stage is to control mass in the vertical plane, thus enabling vertical takeoff. UVITOR is working hard to optimize the model and increase its energy efficiency to 50-90%. In comparison, the energy efficiency of a rocket engine is about 2%. The scientific investigation has been joined by the State Space Scientific Production Center via the execution of a mutual agreement. To implement and manage a project which leads to a revolutionary breakthrough in fundamental physics is difficult. Complications arise due to the tradition mindset of conservative scientists around the world and the reaction of large transportation manufacturers. However, the opinion of scientists should be based on truth and verifiability, and transport manufacturers must come to understand the necessity of such transportation systems and their inevitable entry into the marketplace. The invention of the 4-dimensional engine opens our vision into the future. At the same time it revises 300 years of the history of science. It takes Newton's theory, the foundation of school textbooks, and expands it, adding new constants that differ from what we wrote in our notebooks. However, this new paradigm does not reject the theory of the great scientist; it only extends and enlarges it. The Theory Eighty years ago Einstein proved that space-time is curved. Now Russian physicist Gennady Shipov and his team have demonstrated that not only is space-time curved, it is also twisted and thus creates torsion. Their results go beyond Newton's three laws of mechanics and may necessitate a revision in the principles of physics. Shipov predicted certain results, set up experimental protocols to test them, and developed software to conduct, measure, and report the process. The results confirmed Shipov's predictions and demonstrated that inertial mass and gravitational mass are neither equal nor the same. An equal and opposite reaction is not a necessary result of the forces of inertia. (Inertia: a property of matter by which it remains at rest or in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted on by some external force.) This factor makes motion much more efficient, since there is no resistance to overcome and velocity can be maintained or accelerated with a minimal input of energy. Until now, little attention has been paid to the four forces of inertia: centrifugal, translational, rotational, and coriolis. Shipov's results indicate that vehicles propelled by inertial force can operate in any medium with 70-90% energy efficiency and are ecologically friendly. The research focused on "twisted" space-time, or torsion in space, as the propulsion source. Shipov's prototype (a small vehicle without gears, propellers, or any emissions) moves along the ground, on water, and when suspended in air. With this motion, unlike conventional jet-propelled motion, inertial mass is not expended, degraded, or emitted; it remains controlled by the local metric engineering of warp. The experimental unit weighs 1.7 kg and has a traction force of 170 grams. Controlled by the computer software through an attached cable (in the future, it will be just a microchip),the test vehicle moves at a speed of 2 meters per 10 seconds (1.4k/h) and can accelerate. Calculations indicate that a vehicle weighing around 1.5 tons could travel 1000 meters (1 km) in 4 seconds or 900 k/h. Shipov's inertial force research and demonstrations point to the need to revise or supplement Newton's three basic laws of mechanics. The Theory of Physical Vacuum that underlies these demonstrations successfully explains phenomena of classical mechanics such as fields or forces of inertia created by the rotation, or torsion, of space. Up to now, the primary thinkers on rotation have been Frenet, Ricci, and Cartan, who did not translate theory into practice. Shipov's work does. Here is the concept: Objects fall because of curvature according to conventional Newtonian thinking. "Torsion" would be a more accurate term to describe the phenomenon. Shipov's vehicle also moves by torsion. But, it creates its own torsion. The torsion is not derived externally. A somewhat parallel phenomenon is a black hole in space. The traction or pulling force, of such a vehicle relates to the topological properties of the space where it is located and to its non-holonomic (open) rotational coordinates. The ability to control this kind of motion should lead to the development of vehicles that move in space, on the ground, on water, and underwater using the same engine and without propellers, emission of gasses or liquids, etc. Some Final Thoughts If someone says that you are "empty", believe him, because it's true. You, me, the table, the computer sitting on it, and the whole visible material world is emptiness. Everything is made of vacuum. Its energy gives birth to, penetrates, and feeds the whole world of existence. Clever scientists know this, but only smile skeptically. New representations of the nature of physical vacuum do not fit the picture of the world created by classical science. But, the idea of the Great Emptiness, the Dao, was known in China 5000 years ago. Today, this idea is promising a cataclysm in natural science, technology, and all spheres of life. Along comes Shipov with his formulas. His equations of physical vacuum explain and unite all types of interactions present in nature. These formulas should help provide unexpectedly new and unusual answers in a number of areas- transport, communications, medicine, etc. The solutions are so improbable that they are difficult to believe. Why has Shipov so exasperated the strict, mistrustful scientific world? Even the subject of his research, "mysterious torsion fields", is like a nail in the shoe of physicists, very inconvenient! But, scientists today are recognizing that "spinning fields" really do exist. Just as electromagnetic fields are caused by a charge and gravitational fields are caused by weight, torsion fields are created by any rotating objects. This idea was first introduced by the French mathematician R. Cartan in 1913, then by Einstein. Within the framework of Cartan-Einstein theory, the existence of these fields has been permitted. But, they are weak, cannot be observed, and seem to have no practical application. Shipov states the opposite. This is connected to his theory of physical vacuum and the "mysterious ether" Newton wrote about. For the last 30-40 years, scientists have been trying to analyze the properties of physical vacuum, although from an electromagnetic or gravitational approach. In our early school years, we were taught that the world consists of solid bodies, liquids, gases, and elementary particles. Shipov states that these 4 levels form just the material world. Contemporary physics is involved in the study of this particular world. But, in micro-world research, this approach leads to a dead end. Elementary particles must appear from somewhere. What is their origin? It is obvious that there must be other levels. The fifth level is the primary torsion field, with its unique properties. For example, torsion fields do not have a property called velocity. They occur in the universe simultaneously and penetrate everything. And there are more levels: Primary vacuum (occurring before torsion fields) and Absolute Nothingness. Everything begins from this "nothingness" and comes to an end in "nothingness". But, vacuum is not at all a "dead zone", says Shipov. It is similar to a "boiling broth". Particles are being born and dying instantly in it. It is something like "pre-matter" or "the pre-condition of substance". It is not yet matter, but it already has a plan of how it (matter) will be arranged. In all its variety, physical vacuum continuously influences both living and non-living matter. Its hidden energy penetrates everything. Any breakthrough in science or technology begins with doubts about the correctness of existing postulates…. We believe that a major breakthrough in the way science views the world is clearly at hand.