Robin van Spaandonk
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:47:15 -0700
In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Wed, 2 Jul 2008 13:24:32 -0800: Hi, [snip] > >On Jul 1, 2008, at 3:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> The Casimir force can either work to expand or contract an object, >> depending on >> the shape. It has been shown that it works to expand a sphere. > >I haven't seen this before. Where does this come from? It comes from a theory paper by Boyer (I think). One of Hal Puthoff's references IIRC. Sorry, I don't know which one at the moment. >If you refer >to the electron's orbital, that is only maintained by zero point >energy, i.e. the energy of uncertain momentum, not the Casimir >force. Although the source of both is the same, the zero point field >(ZPF), I think they are technically different, though maybe it is >just a matter of semantics. I think so. >The Casimir force is an attracting force >between two conductive surfaces caused by the exclusion of a band of >frequencies of the ZPF from between them. Technically, that makes it a compressive force created by the excess on the outside. [snip] >An ellipsoid should tend to axially contract more than in the >longitudinal (long axis) direction? > >In any case, the energy available from the Casimir force from a small >displacement dx, A the area, x the plate separation is: > > E = A [h * c * Pi^2 / (240 x^4) ] dx > >which is highly non-linear, but is symmetric in the sense that the >energy gained by attracting two surface elements is exactly the same >as that lost by pulling them apart. This symmetry might be broken, >however. I've sent the suggested means to do this in a post titled >"Casimir force drive free energy motor" [snip] It occurred to me overnight, that if the mechanism I proposed yesterday were correct, then it would probably cause the electrolytic capacitors in the power supplies of PC's all over the world to explode. Given that it doesn't happen, I think it's very probable that my process is a fairy tale.