Re: [Vo]:ZPE-Casimir Inertial Drive UPDATE

[Horace Heffner]

The density of silicon is 2.33 g/cm^3, or 2.33 metric tons per cubic  
meter. A thrust of 8.3 metric tons per cubic meter then readily  
permits building a craft capable of sustained acceleration above 1 g,  
or 9.8 m/s^2.  Even without doppler shifting of the zero point field,  
this will result in exceeding light speed in c/g = 3x10^7 seconds,  
or  about 355 days, one year.  However, the zero point field will  
likely be blue shifted, thus increasing its energy density and thus  
the thruster performance.

Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/