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Charles Buhler

Also: Charles Bueller

contested scientist status · verified public figure

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Charles Buhler · 0:55:42

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American Alchemy · 1:44:38

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Buhler led electrostatics work at Kennedy Space Center and in 2023 announced a 'new force' from electrostatic pressure producing thrust without propellant. No peer-reviewed confirmation has been published. The corpus interviews him about the claim.

Who

RoleNASA electrostatics engineer; founder of Exodus Propulsion Technologies; claims a propellantless drive
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Statusverified public figure (does the person exist and hold the stated position — not whether their claims are true)

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Claims made

  • Charles Buhler's Exodus team claims ~1 mN thrust in air at ~480 V and ~2.5 mN in vacuum from an 'electrostatic pressure force' across thousands of test articles, with patents filed and APEC talks — and as of mid-2026 no mainstream peer-reviewed paper and no independent replication, while NASA's own earlier vacuum test of Biefeld-Brown geometry found no force.

    FACT contested 2026

    • 0:55:42 NASA Chief: "We Just Built Antigravity Propulsion!” · Charles Buhler
      see about 0.1 g, that corresponds to about 1 mN of thrust. Only this time with modern instruments, more rigorous controls, and decades
  • Buhler reports the thrust persists after power is switched off while fields remain, and concludes the effect 'has to be a quantum mechanical effect' because it does not conserve energy classically.

    INFERENCE thin 2026

    • 1:32:36 NASA Chief: "We Just Built Antigravity Propulsion!” · Charles Buhler
      it has to be a quantum mechanical effect. It's not a classical effect what we're
  • Charles Buhler claims ~2000 experimental variations and ~0.1 g / ~1 mN-class thrust without reaction mass.

    FACT thin 2026

    • 0:00:33 NASA Chief: "We Just Built Antigravity Propulsion!” · Charles Buhler
      2,000 instances of the experiment or >> 2,000 variations.
  • SPECULATION: Buhler's electrostatic pressure force is a new effect enabling propellantless interstellar travel.

    SPECULATION thin 2026

    • 0:01:04 NASA Chief: "We Just Built Antigravity Propulsion!” · Charles Buhler
      ou create this thrust mode that just keeps going. >> think I'm bending

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Sources on this record

  • 0:55:42 NASA Chief: "We Just Built Antigravity Propulsion!” · Charles Buhler
    see about 0.1 g, that corresponds to about 1 mN of thrust. Only this time with modern instruments, more rigorous controls, and decades
  • 1:32:36 NASA Chief: "We Just Built Antigravity Propulsion!” · Charles Buhler
    it has to be a quantum mechanical effect. It's not a classical effect what we're

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