On Jan 1, 2009, at 6:48 PM, Jones Beene wrote:
Robin & Horace,
I think you will find that the ZPE cutoff frequency is about 10^43
Hz. Any
number in the THz region is simply a limitation imposed by the
hardware.
This may be a semantics problem. The Haisch Calphysics site
mentions the recent
work by Christian Beck at the University of London and Michael Mackey
at McGill University suggesting that dark energy is nothing other
than a subset of zero-point energy. He apparently agrees. Beck/
Mackey propose that a phase transition occurs so that zero-point
photons (virtual) below a frequency of about 1.7 THz are
gravitationally active whereas above that they are not. They
distinguish this as dark energy.
I take this to mean that below the upper cutoff of 1.7 THz, which
is a rather cold equivalent temperature - it will be possible, with
a properly engineered device - to cohere that subset of ZPE - dark
energy - which is a gravitationally active component of zero-point
energy.
Perhaps the evidence of a successful harnessing of this energy, in
addition to the obvious:
P-out > P-in
is an apparent loss of mass during operation. The "loss" would only
be transient however.
Do you disagree with that interpretation of Beck/Mackey?
Jones
This theory certainly seems at first glance to be at odds with my
theory of Gravimagnetism:
http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/FullGravimag.pdf
which concludes that the difference between virtual photons and real
photons is the presence of mass charge. Only real photons have mass
charge, i.e. the ability to emit or absorb gravitons. This nicely
accounts for the fact the zero point field has no mass, because it is
comprised of virtual photons. Dark energy is merely the presence of
negative gravitational mass matter, which is spontaneously created
from the vacuum (ZPE) by black holes at a rate depending on black
hole mass and distance of the site of a specific pair creation from
the black hole singularity. In fact the presence of this negative
gravitational mass matter, spewing forth in a spherical manner from
black holes at the center of galaxies, including the Milk Way,
accounts for the MOND equation that fits galactic rotations. In my
paper I discuss the fact this negative mass matter is likely cosmic
dark matter, that is to say matter which is mirror matter that has a
miniscule coupling constant with ordinary matter photons, and thus is
"dark". However this negative gravitational charge matter, i.e what
I called "cosmic matter" is not the "dark matter" which astronomers
are trying to identify, because it carries a negative gravitational
charge, and thus has been named by them "dark energy". I can't
account for dark matter readily unless mirror matter itself can be
created in two flavors - mirror matter with positive gravitational
charge and mirror matter with negative gravitational charge. If such
a combination exists, then negative mass black holes can spit out
both ordinary matter and mirror matter having positive gravitational
charge. I've posted variations of my theory here that would permit
this.
Clouds of this combined matter/mirror-matter material can then
coalesce distantly from its source into galaxies comprised of both
light and dark matter where new black holes form. The mass of the
universe then is being continually created in waves of positive mass
black holes generating matter that condenses into negative mass black
holes generating positive mass black holes etc., ad infinitum. This
to me makes much sense, because it answers the question of how we got
out of the black hole that the big bang should have been. If all the
mass of the universe were at a point at one time then that point
would have been a whopping black hole. The answer to that dilemma is
that the big bang was not a black hole. It was comprised of equal
amounts of positive mass charge matter and negative mass charge
matter - and thus was highly expansive, not contractive.
All that said, it seems to me logical that improved coupling of the
ZPF with nuclear particles occurs below some frequency, or more
appropriately in some frequency band depending on particle type. This
coupling adds energy and thus mass to nuclei. If momentum is
uncertain, energy is uncertain, and thus mass is uncertain. But
where does this mass reside? There is now some thinking that all
matter might be virtual:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16095-its-confirmed-matter-is-
merely-vacuum-fluctuations.html?full=true&print=true
http://tinyurl.com/5b6b9y
It seems to me this thinking is not right in that it leaves the
question: what entity then remains to communicate via gravitons? If
quantum mechanics is consistent with gravitation then what entity
exists as a source and sink for the force messenger, i.e. gravitons?
Of there is force then there must be a messenger and a charge that
interacts via the messengers. Photons give us a hint - they carry
mass charge. Virtual photons do not. Some attribute is given matter
or even the wispy photon that makes it "real". In my theory
gravitational charge carries an imaginary component i = (-1)^(1/2).
Perhaps the attribute matter requires is merely a vibration in the
imaginary dimension. My Theory of Gravimagnetism points out that not
only does an electromagnetic zero point field exist, but so does a
gravimagnetic zero point field. Perhaps a coupling of these fields
via string vibration provides the basis for real vs imaginary matter,
the transition between these states, and the emission of gravitons.
If so, then the coupling of the two kinds of zero point fields in the
vacuum with both matter and photons in space may indeed create
gravitational fields from apparent "dark matter". It will be most
interesting to see if the Higgs Boson exists.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
