" LeviCivita effect"
" Soon after Einstein published his theory of General Relativity, the Italian mathematical
physicist Tullio LeviCivita considered the possibility of the creation of an
artificial gravitational field via generation of a static uniform magnetic or electric
1
In [1] it is shown that the modified velocity of light derives from underlying changesin vacuum permittivity and permeability
å0 . å = Kå0, µ0 . µ = Kµ0, hencec
(= 1/vµ0å0) . c/K(= 1/vµå).LeviCivita effect in the polarizable vacuum (PV) representation of general relativity 485
field (see Appendix B for a detailed description) [
11, 12]. In the context of themodern investigation of the theory of traversable wormholes [
13] it was originallythought by one of us (Maccone) that the LeviCivita spacetime metric would be
considered a magnetic or electric field induced wormhole, and examined its implications
for interstellar travel and communication [
14, 15]. However, it was laterproved [
16, 17], that the LeviCivita spacetime metric actually describes a spatialhypercylinder with a position dependent gravitational potential, and possessing
none of the required characteristics of a traversable wormhole (see Appendix B).
The geometry is nonetheless interesting from the standpoint that it describes a
unique cylindrically shaped "trapped" space."

