DIA report "Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy"

Also written as: Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy · the report · document DIA-08-1004-004 · the DIA report

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• The report was one of 38 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents commissioned under the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, a $22 million effort that ran from 2007 to 2012.

• The document is unclassified, was released through FOIA, and is hosted directly on the DIA's own reading room server.

• The report describes a flat-faced traversable wormhole (the "stargate solution") distinct from the spherical throat described in the 1988 academic paper by Kip Thorne and Michael Morris.

• The document does not establish that a traversable wormhole or stargate has ever been built, that the DIA or any other agency possesses this capability, or that the report's recommended next research steps were funded after the AAWSAP contract ended in 2012.

• The DIA released a list of 38 report titles from this program in January 2019 in response to a FOIA request, and released the underlying reports themselves between 2019 and 2022.

• The report's summary states that implementation of faster-than-light interstellar travel via traversable wormholes generally requires the engineering of spacetime into very specialized local geometries.

• The DIA report states that a traveler passing through a flat stargate throat would feel no tidal gravitational forces and see no exotic matter threading the throat, simply emerging in a remote region of spacetime or another universe.

• The document establishes that the Defense Intelligence Agency funded, accepted, and archived a technical assessment concluding that engineering spacetime into a shortcut is a legitimate open physics research question, that a flat stargate solution has a defined mathematical solution, and that negative energy is a laboratory‑demonstrated phenomenon whose scale remains unsolved.

• The report states that the scale remains unresolved: minute quantities of negative energy can be generated, but not the enormous, sustained, precisely shaped quantities required to hold a wormhole throat open at usable size.

• Using Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, the paper concludes that the matter required to hold such a geometry open must be exotic matter with negative energy density.

• The report concludes that negative energy has been produced in the laboratory, citing peer‑reviewed experimental physics literature.

• The Defense Intelligence Agency produced a technical report examining whether spacetime itself could be engineered into a shortcut, a traversable wormhole, using General Relativity and known laboratory physics.

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Origin: first recognised while reading DIA: Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy · 2026-09-12 08:26