Russia has no other path of development than the path of scientific and technological progress, Vladimir Leonov is sure.
In an interview with a Russian scientist, laureate of the Russian Government Prize Vladimir Leonov, we reported on his creation of the fundamental theory of Superunification, which makes Russian fundamental science a world leader.
At the same time, the scientist shared with us the results of tests of a quantum engine with a horizontal thrust of 50 kg of force in an impulse, which took place in 2009. More than five years have passed, and we inquired about the current state of affairs:
Vladimir Semenovich, on your blog there are video clips of the 2009 tests of an apparatus with a quantum engine inside. There is no wheel drive, however, the device moves horizontally due to internal forces. Your opponents claim that the whole thing is in the friction of the wheel bearings, and in zero gravity it will not work
- To remove the existing skepticism, over the years I have improved the quantum engine and made a vertical take-off device to remove the "bearing factor". In June 2014, its bench tests were successfully carried out. With a vehicle mass of 54 kg, the vertical thrust impulse was 500 … 700 kgf (kg of force) with an electrical power consumption of 1 kW. The device takes off vertically along the guides with an acceleration of 10 … 12g. These tests convincingly proved that gravity was conquered experimentally, confirming the Superunification theory.
Can you give comparative characteristics of a quantum engine and a modern rocket engine?
- Based on bench tests, such characteristics were obtained. For comparison: a modern rocket engine (hereinafter referred to as RD) for 1 kW of power creates a thrust of 1 Newton (0.1 kgf). A prototype of a quantum engine (QE) sample of 2014 for 1 kW of power creates a thrust of 5000 Newtons (500 kgf) per pulse.
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Of course, in a continuous mode, the specific thrust characteristics of the CD decrease. However, in the pulsed mode, the CD is already 5000 times more efficient than the RD. This is due to the fact that the CD, unlike the RD, does not heat the atmosphere and space with fuel combustion products. KD is powered by electrical energy.
But this is a revolution in engine building. How will it affect the space industry?
- Today, spacecraft jet engines (RD) have reached their technical limit. For 50 years, the time impulse of their work has been increased from 220 seconds (V-2) by only 2 times to 450 seconds (Proton). The momentum of a quantum engine is not hundreds of seconds, but years. A rocket with a taxiway weighing 100 tons at best carries 5 tons (5%) of payload.
The apparatus with a quantum engine of 100 tons will have a quantum engine with a reactor of 10 tons, that is, the payload is 90 tons, which is already 900% against 5% for the RD.
And what will be the speed characteristics of the new generation interplanetary spacecraft?
- The maximum speed of a spacecraft with a quantum engine can reach 1000 km / s versus 18 km / s for a rocket. But most importantly, having a long thrust impulse, a vehicle with a CD can move with acceleration. So, a flight to Mars on a spacecraft of a new generation with a quantum engine in the acceleration mode ± 1g will take only 42 hours, and with full compensation of weightlessness, to the Moon - 3.6 hours. A new era in space technology is dawning.
What source of energy do you plan to use to power the quantum engine?
- The most promising source of energy is a cold fusion reactor (CNF), for example, according to the scheme of the Italian engineer Andrea Rossi, working on nickel. The energy output of fuel, the same nickel in the nuclear cycle, is a million times higher than that of chemical fuel, that is, 1 kg of nickel in the CNS mode releases energy like 1 million kg of gasoline.
But Russia also has its own developments. I wrote about this in the article "The Commission on Pseudoscience and Cold Fusion Will Bury the Raw Materials Economy of Russia." Today we are reaping the fruits of this in the form of falling prices for hydrocarbon energy resources (Read "Russia is going to be choked with cold fusion")
- Cold fusion is a separate big topic, and returning to the quantum engine, I would like to know about its application in aviation
- Creation of a universal engine that could work simultaneously in space, in the atmosphere, on earth and under water is the primary task of fundamental science.
Only one engine satisfies this requirement - the quantum one. For example, in a passenger plane, the fuel consumption of a turbojet engine is used to overcome air resistance at altitudes of 10 … 12 km, it does not fly higher. Installation of a CD on an airplane will allow it to fly at altitudes of 50 … 100 km, where the resistance is reduced by orders of magnitude, and, accordingly, the consumption of traditional fuel, the plane flies essentially by inertia.
When switching to HNF fuel, the aircraft will be able to fly for years without refueling. By increasing the speed, for example, on the Moscow-New York route, the flight time can be reduced from 10 hours to 1 hour.
Well, just fantastic. What will happen to the car?
- Yes, there is no fantasy, there is a fundamental theory of Superunification, which determines the physical foundations of new CNF reactors and a quantum engine operating on new physical principles.
The current level of development of science and technology a hundred years ago would have been perceived as fantasy, when aviation and automobiles were just in their infancy. And what will happen in a hundred years?
Already, installing a quantum engine on a car is fundamentally changing its scheme. We have a car body on wheels and a power plant with CD. No transmission needed. Traction is provided by CD, the permeability is colossal, the wheels do not slip. Filling 1 kg of nickel into the HYF reactor will allow a passenger car to run 10 million kilometers without refueling, which is 25 distances to the Moon.
The car will be almost "eternal" - 50 … 100 years of service life. There will be flying cars with anti-gravity cushion, capable of overcoming water obstacles through the air.
You gave us an idealistic picture of the near future. But who will allow it to be done? Multinational corporations whose business is based on gasoline and oil will not allow this. And 50% of the budget of Russia before the sanctions of the West was filled by oil and gas exports
- This is not so fundamentally. Everything that drives and flies now is the last century. Believe me, time will pass, and transnational corporations will race to master the production of new cars, aircraft and reactors. These are the rules for successful business, and they are very strict. Whoever is late for the distribution will go broke.
And Russia has no other path of development than the path of scientific and technological progress. The raw materials economy of Russia turned out to be vulnerable to the sanctions policy of the West, and it was no secret. Now, for the sanctions, we must thank the West for awakening Russia. We need literally 2-3 years to carry out modernization and accelerate economic growth. Deng Xiaoping was 74 years old when he started modernizing China and their economy was in the worst condition, Putin is 62.
As far as we know, you have been working on the theory of Superunification, the quantum engine and the CNF reactor for 20 years. But it turned out that the Italian Andrea Rossi was the first to launch a cold fusion reactor. The US and China are also working to build a quantum engine. Are we not late, and who in Russia is hindering the development of new energy and space technologies?
- Paradoxically, the main opponent of cold fusion and research in the field of antigravity was and remains the leadership of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), or rather the RAS commission on pseudoscience, which declared cold fusion and antigravity a double pseudoscience.
It is not difficult to prove that the RAS commission on pseudoscience was a special project from the outside, when, against the background of the struggle against sorcerers and false healers, all groups of scientists-enthusiasts in the field of CNF were defeated in the RAS. Fortunately for us, the CNF specialists did not give up and continued to work “underground”, organizing annual conferences on cold nuclear transmutation at the initiative of one of the CNF pioneers, Yuri Bazhutov. Now they are already preparing for the 22nd conference. As for the Rossi reactor, it has no special secrets, and its reactor would have already been repeated by the Russian scientist Alexander Parkhomov.
But the hands of the RAS commission on pseudoscience reached out to the military, to Roscosmos. Work was stopped in the field of creating artificial gravity devices at the Research Institute of Space Systems (NIIKS), and one of the pioneers of a new direction in space propulsion, General Valery Menshikov, was dismissed.
In the media, a company was blown out to discredit these works (read "The resumption of tests of" Gravitsapa "is a cannon salvo at the Academy of Sciences"). As a result, time was wasted, and Roscosmos was unable to participate in the modernization of the quantum engine.
I will add that in the work of the CD there is no violation of Newton's third law. CD creates thrust when interacting with quantized space-time. China and the US are also working on a quantum engine. But their achievements in terms of thrust are less than 1 gram against 500 kg for the Russian KD (read "The new American engine has refuted the laws of physics").
Vladimir Semenovich, thank you very much for the interesting interview. What about the Higgs boson?
- As I argued, the Higgs boson and its search at the LHC are the largest anti-scientific falsification. After the discovery of the Higgs boson, they promised to create a new physics and solve the problems of quantum gravity. Didn't decide.
And the problems of quantum gravity and artificial gravity control have been successfully solved in the Superunification theory, which is a new physics. The theory of Superunification is based on my discovery in 1996 of a quantum of space-time (quanton). Quanton is the zero missing element in the periodic table (vacuum atom Newtonium), without the participation of which the rest of the elements cannot be formed.
Thank you very much for your interview. Let's hope that the Zapal sanctions will really push the development of domestic science in priority areas
Alexander Petrov