Executive summary-answer: "I'll tell you yesterday" <G>
Nice site on "dimensionality" mentioned on another forum:
http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/dimensions.html
"With more or less than one time-dimension, the partial
differential equations of nature would lack the hyperbolicity
property that enables observers to make predictions. In a space
with more than three dimensions, there can be no traditional atoms
and perhaps no stable structures. A space with less than three
dimensions allows no gravitational force and may be too simple and
barren to contain observers."
The interesting part of this look at dimensions - for many on his
forum whose focus is renewable energy may be relative to the
implications for ZPE.
The zero point field could possibly be related to dimensionality
via the mathematics applicable to the Dirac Sea, one might
surmise. Some might argue that the Dirac Sea is that yellow area
on Tegmark's grid labeled "tachyons only"... which has our same
three spatial dimensions, so it is everywhere we are, but also has
extra time dimensions so we don't notice it in linear time. For us
to connect to it - we must cross that area labeled
"unpredictable"... after we figure out just what are "extra time
dimensions". In fact distance and time - may be connected in a
similar see-saw way that mass and energy are interchangeable - and
it is in "smallness" where we find "extra" time. Let's hear it for
all those "NanE's" being trained in University these days...(as TB
grins).
That word "unpredictable" does not imply 'unstable' or
'impossible' but only related to how the discovery will likely be
made. It is more like a "hit or miss" kind of linkage, but once
found - then things change. It was like the Europeans prior to
discovery of the New World. It was always here, despite what the
Pope and all his Bishops said, but finding it was the problem.
Once we are able to find one workable linkage to the "extra" time
dimensions where ZPE is hiding, then getting there should be
"repeatable" in the original way, even if the way we discovered it
originally was "lucky" and cannot be used to find other similar
routes. This would seem to involve mastery of "time," and physics
has given us some hints at the dynamics of this in Quantum
Mechanics and in electromagnetism:
"On the time reversal invariance of classical electromagnetic
theory"
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001406/01/Albert-TRI.pdf
This route through the shadow of hyper-time unpredictability is
the reason that all such accounts of success in overunity - even
by the cadre of fairly ignorant inventors, even con-men, the likes
Joe Newman and Tilley and especially those investigators advanced
to a higher level, like Aspden - these claims (except for the
obviously invented claims) should be looked at carefully before
dismissing them because of the dubious reputation or integrity of
the inventor. Throughout history, more than a few dubious
reputations have been salvaged by a major discovery.
The first person to tap into ZPE will likely do it by a
serendipitous "hit or miss" kind of luck and may be too ignorant
or too poor a record keeper to make it repeatable. But that does
not mean that they didn't get a real clue- which can be followed
by others - hopefully with more insight and understanding. People
have been trying to follow the discovery of Hans Coler for sixty
years now and some day - just maybe - that door on that one will
reopen.
The big question for many Vo's is - does ZPE enter into LENR in
any way - such as by supplying the close range substitute
(borrowed) energy necessary to overcome the coulomb barrier? In
quantum mechanics energy is often "borrowed" and then immediately
"repaid" so that it seems to be "magical" in origin. But this is
normally low probability, Most LENR researchers are revolted by
even the suggestion that ZPE plays a major role in their field -
as it implies that LENR cannot fit into the same mold as
traditional 3-space physics, and they do not want to fight "wars
on two fronts." Wars of respectability, that is.
Understandable. They may even be correct, but there is reason to
suspect otherwise - and this goes beyond the present lack of "on
demand" reliability in LENR, since most of these experiments
involve good record keeping. The problem may be in the entire base
of underlying assumptions. For instance, if one is bound too
closely to a hot fusion model, one may not want to try LENR at
cryogenic temperatures - despite Robert Forward and others having
made a case for this route, and especially the new results of
Mizuno.
Sure LENR 'resembles' (kind of) traditional nuclear energy close
enough so that no ZPE linkage is 'necessarily' required, at least
not on the surface, but that does not mean that the unusual
dynamics of it are not thoroughly QM based and subject to a whole
range of counter-intuitive inputs. There are hints all over the
place - Letts, Mizuno, Forward, etc. that success may benefit from
such things (seldom tried) as strong magnetic fields, coherent
input radiation, and a combination of "restraints" such as extreme
cold and/or extreme high pressure.
Ah - if only we had some of that enormous "lost" potential for
funding R&D along these lines - the
alternative-to-the-alternatives ... as in - say a big chunk of
that trillion dollars, wasted on a pointless war in a hostile
land, a war that has made us more vulnerable to international
terrorism, not less. Not that "pathological science" would have
gotten that big chunk of extra dollars anyway, but ... who knows
what great things can happen in a world where horizons are raised
by allowing creative ingenuity to triumph over past limitations?
My greatly toned-down rant-du-jour...
Jones
