AEGIS Lab

AEGIS Lab is a computational physics research platform that investigates whether zero-point energy gradients inside negative-index metamaterials can couple to inertial mass, potentially enabling gravitational shielding. The platform combines rigorously validated physics—including the Casimir force (matched to textbook values within 1%), Lifshitz theory for media, and Drude-Lorentz metamaterial response—with a single speculative parameter, κ, that quantifies the hypothesized vacuum-inertia coupling strength. Through real-time simulation, parameter sweeps, and quantitative sensitivity analysis, AEGIS Lab maps the complete parameter space from quantum vacuum forces to macroscopic levitation. The platform proposes a specific, falsifiable tabletop experiment—measuring Casimir forces inside negative-index metamaterials—an experiment never performed by any laboratory. It provides complete noise budgeting, signal-to-noise analysis, detection thresholds, and experimental protocols. The framework demonstrates that if κ exceeds 10⁻¹⁴, a microwave-frequency metamaterial Casimir cavity would produce a detectable force anomaly at 5σ significance, using standard PCB fabrication and AFM readout. AEGIS Lab does not claim anti-gravity exists; it provides the computational foundation to test whether it could.