I find all this discussion of using magnetism to harness zero point energy [ZPE] rather interesting.
Ever since, decades ago, we hoisted the aetherial jolly roger at an international materials conference [to the utter confusion of one delegate who came up to us at the conference dinner and said, "That paper of yours - it was a hoax, wasn't it." 8-) ] it has seems perfectly obvious to us that pattern of flux around a magnet looked the same as the pattern of flow between a source and a sink at the bottom of a deep ocean because that is precisely what it was - a flow of substance between a source and a sink at the bottom of a deep aetherial ocean. And if one were to ask for tangible evidence of the to be expected Bernoulli pressure drop produced by this flow/flux though the body of a material, what better than magnetostriction - where the increasing difference between the external Casimir type pressure and the internal pressure squeezes the material out of its unmagnetised shape. How then does ZPE drive the sub atomic motion transducers? Possibly in a similar manner to the way that molecular point energy [MPE] drives the Crookes "windmill". To digress a moment, I have often thought that the demonstration potential of the Crookes radiometer was very much underdeveloped. For example, if one angled the vane so that there was a downward thrust, and made the rotor free running on its axle, then as the radiation slowly increased, the rotor would rise majestically into the rarified air. One might have to reduce the rotor in size to take advantage of the fact that weight decreases as the cube whereas the driving edge effect only decreases linearly with characteristic length. Indeed, one might go the whole hog, free the rotor completely and construct a two rotor Crookes helicopter which could merrily fly around its tiny airspace. Anyone familiar with the fractal pattern of nature will also recognise that just as shore line grows indefinitely with increasing resolution so also energies of motion grow likewise. The fact that the power of a magnet is much greater than the power of an electret, for example, implies that it is acting on a much finer scale It is hardly surprising then that any curious investigator, uncorrupted by a dogmatic scientific education, should consciously, or subconsciously, recognise the implications of magnetic flux and attempt to harness it for useful purposes. Indeed, an inveterate optimist might reason that one only needed to hang a powerful magnet on a very long thread and demonstrate that thrust of the magnetic jet engine led to a deviation from the vertical. The optimist could reasonably attribute failure of this experiment to the fact that the difference in pressure between the source pole an the sink pole, though large, was minuscule compared to the astronomical pressures at the bottom of the ZPE ocean. He might therefore start to investigate ways in which the magnetic thrust can be amplified. What about a ring of magnets like Kekule's snake eating its own tail? What about the inverse of a solenoid, a continuous helical coil. Or, taking an example from biology, a coil-coil - or even a coil-coil-coil..........coil? 8-) Of course, it may be that like alchemists of old the experimental facilities of the heretical investigator are just too crude to have any hope of success. On the other hand, perhaps some latterday Orville and Wilbur will work their way though the logical labyrinth and achieve the "impossible". Whilst on the subject of alchemy it is pertinent to remember this. Once the chemists of the 19th century discovered the atom, they arrogantly proclaimed that the alchemist's attempt to turn base metals into gold was intrinsically impossible. We now know that they were wrong - and that the alchemists, albeit hopelessly optimistic, were right to reach for their moon. Frank Grimer
