Riding the Wave
How CERN’s AWAKE Experiment May Validate the Soviet Propulsion Theories in Engineering Infinity
In the late Cold War era—sometime between the early 1980s and early 1990s—a Soviet aerospace engineer named Valerijs Černohajev compiled a set of dense, reverse-engineering notes detailing a highly unconventional propulsion theory. The documents, discovered posthumously and later translated under the title Engineering Infinity, describe a system of motion driven not by combustion or propellant, but by resonance with gravitational and electromagnetic fields.
At the time, Černohajev’s ideas would have been viewed as speculative at best. But now, decades later, a groundbreaking experiment at CERN may be proving key parts of his theory—not through intention, but through field physics.
That experiment is AWAKE—the Advanced Wakefield Experiment. And while its purpose is particle acceleration, its core mechanism—motion through resonance with a plasma field—reads like a modern echo of Černohajev’s work.
The Premise: Propulsion by Resonance, Not Reaction
Černohajev proposed that gravity and electromagnetism are not separate phenomena, but dual aspects of a shared resonance field. According to his notes, a craft could navigate spacetime not by pushing against it, but by tuning itself to the natural field structures of its environment—falling forward, in effect, on a custom-built waveform.
He diagrammed propulsion systems built around ring structures, field amplifiers, and “charge-slippage nodes,” arguing that motion could be induced through timed resonance with galactic-scale charge and gravity vectors.
The theory remained obscure, and unpublished. But modern physics may now be catching up—without even realizing it.
CERN’s AWAKE: Acceleration by Wakefield
Fast forward to the 2010s: CERN launches AWAKE, the world’s first proton-driven plasma wakefield accelerator.
Here’s how it works: a beam of high-energy protons is sent through a plasma chamber. As the beam moves, it displaces the plasma’s free electrons, creating oscillations—wakefields—in the plasma medium. A second beam of electrons is then injected behind the first, “riding” these wakefields like a surfer rides a wave, accelerating to relativistic speeds in mere meters.
This is motion through resonance, not force. No fuel. No traditional propulsion. Just field alignment.
And that principle—that wave-riding field induction—is the exact core of Černohajev’s concept.
What Could Černohajev Have Known?
Černohajev’s documents are dated only by context—internal references, paper types, and notations suggest they were written sometime between the early 1980s and early 1990s.
At that time:
Plasma wakefield acceleration existed only in theory, with the first Western proposal (Tajima & Dawson) appearing in 1979.
The USSR’s high-energy physics programs were largely opaque, but it’s unlikely a mid-level aerospace engineer would have access to the theoretical work, let alone experimental designs.
CERN's AWAKE was still decades away—proposed only in 2013, with the first successful beam acceleration in 2016.
If Černohajev understood these principles, he likely didn’t arrive at them through public physics literature. Either he was working from nonpublic sources, or—as some believe—his documents represent an attempt to reverse-engineer a recovered system that already functioned on these principles.
Coincidence or Convergence?
It’s tempting to dismiss the parallels between Černohajev’s Cold War-era manuscripts and CERN’s cutting-edge particle acceleration experiments as coincidence. After all, Černohajev was an aerospace engineer, not a particle physicist, and his work existed far outside the formal scientific community. But a closer look at the structure of both ideas tells a more compelling story.
Černohajev wasn’t trying to build a linear accelerator, nor did he possess knowledge of the wakefield mechanics that now underpin CERN’s AWAKE project. What he described, however—motion induced by harmonic resonance within charge-dense environments—maps surprisingly well onto the modern architecture of plasma wakefield acceleration. His schematics include ringed propulsion structures designed to manipulate standing wave patterns inside engineered fields. He theorized that craft could achieve lift and navigation not by generating force against the environment, but by embedding themselves in dynamic field gradients—essentially "riding the wave" of space itself.
In CERN’s AWAKE experiment, we now use those very principles—field gradients, resonant charge displacement, and synchronized momentum transfer—to accelerate electrons across short distances at relativistic speeds. Electrons do not push forward; they are carried by engineered waves. That’s not just an analogy for Černohajev’s propulsion—it’s nearly a one-to-one model, applied at a different scale and under a different name.
So the question isn't whether Černohajev predicted AWAKE. He couldn't have. The technology and terminology didn’t exist in his time. But he may have arrived at a similar framework through a different channel: reverse engineering, classified briefings, or direct exposure to field behaviors outside the scope of public physics.
Either way, what we’re seeing isn’t a coincidence. It’s a convergence—the natural meeting point of two independent paths following the same underlying reality: that motion can emerge not from thrust, but from resonance.
Conclusion: The Physics of Contact?
CERN did not set out to explore UAP propulsion. But the AWAKE experiment may serve as unintentional validation of Černohajev’s framework. It shows that motion can be induced by finely tuned field interaction—and that energy doesn’t always need to come from explosive reaction.
The difference is only one of scale—and application.
AWAKE proves you can ride a wave in a laboratory.
Černohajev’s Engineering Infinity suggests someone already figured out how to do it in the sky.
The question now isn’t whether his ideas were possible.
It’s whether they were recovered.
