David, I think you might find my propulsion project interesting. Here is a paper I presented at the National Space Society Conference in Chicago this last May and to the Natural Philosophy Alliance Conference in June. Please let me know what you think and if you would like to participate. In addition to this approach, I have also filed a patent on optical approaches to reflecting more ZPE EM Flux from one side of a Quantum Sail than from the other side, since the refected light imparts twice as much momentum as the absorbed-light, thus producing a direct physical force from the Quantum Vacuum. http://z-pec.yolasite.com/resources/Short%20NSS%20Conference%20Paper.pdf Scott +509 326 1307
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:22:45 +0200 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [Vo]:High frequency UV radiation = VUV The special thing about 159 nm is that it is almost entirely absorbed by air and ionizing it. Ionized air can be affected by other radiation to be heated. Heating localized air around a body makes a push on it. I want to elaborate with propulsion of this kind. UV with shorter wavelenght than 159 nm is called VUV, vacuum ultraviolet, since it can only exist in vacuum. It is absorbed by air. Very funny would be to have tunable UV on the border between UV and VUV. The absorption rate would then be adjustable and the radiation could pass arbitrarily far away ffrom the radiation source. I want to heat air around an object as described in my arXiv article on preventing shock waves. I think that the same technique can be used to achieve propulsion as well and it could be the way that flying saucers operate. They fly with apparently no moving parts and UV/VUV in combination with heating could have the same effect. I see that many vacuum UV lights can be bought: http://www.google.se/search?hl=en&q=vacuum+uv+lamp David David Jonsson, Sweden, phone callto:+46703000370
