On Jul 31, 2009, at 3:59 AM, Roarty, Francis X wrote:
Yes there are many people that contend that all can be explained
using virtual photons and unbalanced forces inducing an electrostatic
charge pulling the plates together but both schools agree the ratio of
short to long vacuum fluctuations
Your frequent use of the term "vacuum fluctuations" adds to the
confusion in your writing. The term "vacuum fluctuations" is
typically reserved for the particle aspect of vacuum energy, the
creation of virtual particle pairs, i.e. electron-positron, proton-
neutron, strange pairs, etc. Virtual particle pairs pop into
existence for an amount of time that does not violate Heisenberg.
This has nothing to do with the ZPF exclusion from cavities.
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My intuition is this method if possible would be very difficult as
opposed to exploiting the difference inside cavity vs outside
cavity in
the ratio of short to long vacuum flux.
Uh..., exactly what do you think I exploited? Read:
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/CasimirGenerator.pdf
Somehow Mills' is encouraging
this changed ratio of flux to disassociate gas atoms that nature
immediately repairs to set up a runaway Plasma oscillation.
I don't know anything about this. I have not heard of the ZPF being
used to disassociate gas atoms. Do you have a reference? My
impression of all this is the potentials available from the ZPF are
just not very big at atomic dimensions, and are typically of the
opposite kind, i.e. pressure causing, which sticks things together,
like the van der Waals force. An intramolecule repulsive force,
Casimir pressure, only emerges at sub-ground state, AFAIK. It
essentially *defines* ground state . The existence of Casimir
pressure is one of the significant arguments that hydrinos must have
short half-lives if they exist at all.
One way to generate excess heat by using Casimir cavity transversal
would be to send molecules through the cavity that are stuck together
by van der Waals forces. The cavity would reduce the ZPF and thus
unstick the molecules. This would produce a tiny amount of energy
per molecule pair unstuck, on the order of a small fraction of an eV,
but that is a lot of heat if the flow can be made large enough. This
is not ionization, nor plasma creation, but it is a possibly workable
concept for excess heat production. It also would verify the ZPF
experimentally.
It is interesting that early on in the CF era it was noted that an AC
signal superimposed on the DC electrolysis tends to increase excess
heat. A variation of this principle is embodied in Dardik's
superwave method. It may be of interest that the ZPF's role in the
adsorbtion of hydrogen at the cathode's surface might result in
excess heat. Applying a large AC signal component to the
electrolysis current sets up a repetition of the dissociation event
at the cathode surface. This actually is a kind of ionization de-
ionization cycle, but not involving a complete ionization potential.
The main difference in concept here is that the ZPF doesn't supply
all the hydrogen disassociation energy (from the H3O+ hydronium
state), just a small portion. Enough to be measured possibly though.
This may account for excess heat in the amount measured in Ni-protium
CF experiments.
Regards
Fran
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
