December 4th, 2018. The USPTO issues a mysterious patent to the Navy for a hybrid aerospace/undersea craft, capable of extreme speeds in water, air and space. It takes advantage of a quantum mechanics concept once thought impossible: manipulating microscopic fluctuations always present in the vacuum of empty space.
Sources
Craft patent https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en
EM generator patent https://patents.google.com/patent/US10135366B2/
Video/image credits
quantum fluctuations: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quantum_Fluctuations.gif
Casimir effect: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Water_wave_analogue_of_Casimir_effect.ogv
Navy public domain video via Jeff Quitney: https://vimeo.com/405461012
Declassified U.S. nuclear test footage used with express permission from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a Department of Energy national security laboratory. See the full playlist of tests here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvGO_dWo8VfcmG166wKRy5z-GlJ_OQND5
quantum visualization: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interference_of_a_quantum_particle_with_itself.gif
double slit experiment: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ADouble_slit_experiment.webm
Experiment footage via Dr. Fred Leitner.