Here's a link to the science daily article on the experiment:
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111118133050.htm>
--On Friday, November 14, 2014 7:29 AM -0800 Jones Beene
<jone...@pacbell.net> wrote:
Another "thought experiment" …
Here is a video an oscillating mirror which "creates photons"… and
this has actually been proved in experiments at low power. Moving the
mirror requires energy input which makes the "free photon"
production less than overunity, of course... at least for now. The
mirror in this case is a planar metallic surface fabricated at
nano-geometry using the same lithography techniques of the semiconductor
industry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDzqqsTFywk
The goal of this thought experiment is "persistent light," not to be
confused with the biological term. This is a form of overunity, and thus
is technically impossible without an outside source of energy, which is
to be the DCE, or dynamical Casimir effect. If DCE moves the mirror then
net gain will be possible in the form of persistent light and a photon
chain reaction.
Now, Imagine a hollow sphere as a mirror. Obviously light can be
reflected by a sphere, both internally and externally. If the sphere
wall is thin enough, the sphere will naturally pulsate at the blackbody
rate. If the pulsation is in step with a multiple of the wave length of
light being reflected, and have "created" photons in the hollow
sphere, then "on paper" at least, DCE would be the proximate source
of gain for persistent light.
With phonons and photons resonantly vibrating - if the spheres are
translucent - we have a material which "glows" and tends to lock
adjoining spheres into harmony. The phonon pulsation would be at an IR
frequency and the photons would be visible and either coherent of
superradiant. The ratio of the two wavelengths cannot be too great, or
any kind of resonant coupling would be lost. An interesting starting
point is to start with photon input from a low-pressure sodium lamp,
which naturally gives only monochromatic yellow light at 589 nm. Once
near coherence is reached the lamp is shut off.
If the "glowing" material is a dielectric, like titania, we have
what is known as a "dielectric mirror" (aka Bragg reflector). In
short, this experiment proposes that a "photonic chain reaction"
(defined as extreme persistent luminescence) follows from a variation of
the Bragg reflector, made of translucent titania nanospheres, which are
commercially available and will benefit from added "created photons"
from the internal vibrating mirrors. Losses can be extremely low, since
99.99% of incident light is reflected, so the DCE photon creation only
needs to make up a few ppm of losses. The trick is to tailor everything
together at stepped resonance. The most extreme ratio where coupling
occurs is not known, but probably would benefit from a third medium in
the middle, since IR wavelengths are so much longer than visible light.
IR
Triple coherency could be possible in this context, if a another
reflective and electrically conductive material were interspersed with
the titania. This could result in mutual resonance for photons, phonons
and electrons (the matter wave of the electron if the conductor was an
exciton).
Here is a step one: start with "photospheres" of a chosen cavity
size (to match an IR wavelength) which have cavities in the Casimir
range of geometry.
http://www.cospheric.com/TiO2_titanium_dioxide_coated_glass_spheres.htm
which are rather pricey, so this proposal will await a sponsor to move
into the Lab, but as they say in the MasterCard ads, the result could be
priceless…
At one time, it looked like a AC frequency could work as the 3rd system
to be made coherent, but "static" charge is a better bet- in the
sense of a local field. Thus, the next step is to mix excitons into the
titania in the form of QSI nanospheres. An IR photon with a wavelength
of 9.4 microns is a ratio of 16x the monochromatic emission of sodium
and has an energy of less than .2 eV. That IR photon would be paired
with an electron with a kinetic energy of .0002 eV. The associated
DeBroglie wavelength is about the same as the photon, but that is rather
"cold". In effect this is a static free electron with an oscillating
exciton hole, and that the entire structure with intermixed titania is
semi-coherent and translucent.
"Persistent light" or the "photon chain reaction" would be a
form of overunity which has enormous appeal, since it is self-powered in
a most obvious way that cannot be denied - and can in principle be
powered by DCE. The devil is in the details, however, and as you can
see, I am not there yet on getting the details to line up for triple
coherency.
This is an invitation for anyone who has been thinking along these lines
to propose their own version of persistent light, even if it requires
LENR instead of DCE. The holy grail is a stand-alone system with no
outside power input after startup, such as Dennis Cravens "almost"
demonstrated at NI Week. So close but so far away.
"Self-power" in one form or another is where the skeptics will have
to put-up or shut-up, as they say.
