Re: The ZPE is observable!

2006-02-11 Thread Horace Heffner
On Feb 10, 2006, at 6:29 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Check out "Unruh effect" or "Unruh radiation". I just heard about this tonight; haven't really looked into it. It's mainstream physics, though, nothing speculative about it. Apparently, an accelerating body "sees" a uniform "bath" of

The ZPE is observable!

2006-02-10 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Check out "Unruh effect" or "Unruh radiation". I just heard about this tonight; haven't really looked into it. It's mainstream physics, though, nothing speculative about it. Apparently, an accelerating body "sees" a uniform "bath" of radiation -- heat energy -- all around it. This "bath" co