In reply to Jones Beene's message of Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:56:08 -0700: Hi, [snip] >Now try to transfer the information you know about the Casimir >force to the JoeCell, and consider the possibility that (aside >from anything else) **nanobubbles** are the major "fuel" being >created. That and a small amount of hydrogen. > >What did I say? bubbles as fuel ?? how crazy is that??? [snip] >shrinking them ... BUT is the overall system then able to recover >more energy, during expansion, then was applied initially --- that >would be courtesy of aether and the Casimir force? IOW can the >bulk of the "fuel".perhaps, be nothing more complicated than very >tiny bubbles under intense compression ! After all Boyle's law is >linear but the Casimir is a fourth-power pressurization- so there >an arguable theoretical basis for all of this. [snip] Some years back, I read a paper by Boyer written sometime in the 80's I think wherein he showed that the Casimir force causes a sphere to expand, not contract (apparently it depends on the shape of the wall). However a quick google search turned this up:
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0408184 Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means.
