As a retired STEM professional, I think the information published by NASA on their QFD (Quantum Flux Drive - NASA Warp Drive or Singularity Engine results in displacement not by movement but by geometric reconfiguration) and Navy patents for an Inertial Mass Reduction Device are based on areas of physics which are categorized as either "dark energy" or "dark matter". The word "dark" implies unknown or not understood.
I think that grouping things we don't understand as "dark" was not the right approach because it discourages scientists / engineers from investigating things identified in these categories. It sounds like both the US Navy and NASA took another approach basically seeking to understand new ideas and observed phenomena, i.e. build a device which exhibits the required properties to accomplish the desired function and/or transformation. It appears that NASA and the US Navy have made progress in the testing they have performed. As far as concerns expressed by outside parties, I think they can go pound sand at this point.
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