Spacetime Metric Engineering

A 13-lecture series on warp metrics, the quantum vacuum, and what experimenters can actually try.

Lecture 10 · Block D — Engineering proposals + source-corpus endpoint · 41 min · HOST · PAIS · HOSSENFELDER

The Pais patent series

The Pais patent series: institutional attestation, no replication yet.

About this lecture

Salvatore Pais (NAVAIR, CWRU PhD). USPTO 10,144,532; 10,322,827; 10,135,366; 2019/0058105; 2019/0295733. The Sheehy attestation. The ~$508K NAWCAD evaluation that could not demonstrate the effect. Discipline: patent-filed-and-attested is not patent-replicated-by-independent-laboratory.

Excerpt

Salvatore Pais (NAVAIR, CWRU PhD). USPTO 10,144,532; 10,322,827; 10,135,366; 2019/0058105; 2019/0295733. The Sheehy attestation. The ~$508K NAWCAD evaluation that could not demonstrate the effect. Discipline: patent-filed-and-attested is not patent-replicated-by-independent-laboratory.

Full script + citations available in the SME companion app. Audio narration via Google Cloud Chirp HD; lecture-length runtime ≈ 38–44 minutes.

What you'll learn

Each claim in this lecture is placed on the four-tier disciplinary spine: peer-reviewed-replicated, peer-reviewed-once, patent-attested, or claim-only. By the end of Season 1 listeners can read any new physics claim in this territory and place it correctly.