For those who do not follow the Blaze Labs forum and Xavier Borg's
insight... today an interesting slant on ZPE appeared. The slant is not
related to "energy available" from ZPE so much as the lower ground state
availability.
I am including it here because it ties-in nicely to an important point
about DPSR (Dicke-Preparata super-radiance).
The distinction (gauge-like distinction) in Xavier's ZPE appraisal would
be easy to overlook, but it should not be. It relates energy-flow, but
not focusing on the "source," so much as the "sink".
To explain this better, here is a (potentially misleading) kind of
analogy which does not depend on ZPE: compressed air motors. These use
energy stored in air pressure, yet they are a form of heat engine; even
though the temperature of the medium (compressed air) is actually
ambient before energy extraction. What has happened, in effect, is that
the work done in compression has lowered the 'ground state' or the
available "heat sink". This is not the standard verbalization, but it
expresses how "ambient" energy can provide plenty of work to anyone who
engineers a special degenerate ground state.
In the Casimir force, the ZPE energy outside the plates is actually
below ground state in 3-space, but is NOT the lowest possible energy
state of the vacuum, and therefore vacuum energy can be engineered to
produce useful work by finding an even lower strata, or degenerate
state. Another analogy is OTEC, a kind of turbine-generator where ocean
surface temperature can be used for energy, since it is at a higher
state than the deep-water sink.
In fact it is well known that more than one ground state can exist, and
R. Mills of BLP, for instance, has switched his terminology to
acknowledge "redundant" ground states. Such states are said to be either
shrunken or degenerate. The most important issues with engineering
degeneracy for work, is its time-delineated stability, and its
entropy-overhead (so to speak).
The entropy of any degenerate ground state, even at zero degrees K, is
no longer required to be set at an absolute zero level for calculation
purposes. Entropy is simply re-defined as a measure of the availability
of a system to do work.
There probably is an "absolute-absolute" zero, out there in
extra-dimensionality, somewhere, but as to DPSR in our 3-space, this is
not needed.
Super-radiance is considered to be a dissipative instability of
negative-energy polarization waves, which occurs as a result of loss by
emission into ambient space or into ZPE degenerate space. It is a
"self-organizing" effect. That should be emphasized.
Obviously at this stage DPSR is lossy. In this usage, negative-energy is
that which is below the conventionally-defined ground state. The best
examples is positrons under the Dirac sea model of electron behavior,
and the region of reduced vacuum energy associated with the Casimir
effect - as dimensions are reduced. Both of these are involved in DPSR.
To turn the initial loss, such as in a glow discharge, into a secondary
gain, there must exist a way to immediately use the semi-coherent
results to stimulate a gainful reaction, such as LENR. The next
important issue is "how ?"
This brings us back to the wavy-waves of "Energetics Technologies Ltd."
They are the company from Israel with a shady past, which has reported
some of the best energy gains in LENR anywhere. Are they for real? Time
will tell, but even if not, they may have stumbled onto an important
clue - the superwave.
A superwave consists of waves within waves "fractally nested" in a
non-linear manner. Getting to that state requires self-organization (and
perhaps a bit of luck) ... and can be expedited by DPSR.
In other words, superadiance (DPSR) when properly engineered (or
serendipitously found) will naturally produce a self-organize superwave.
Will that superwave then stimulate or catalyze LENR ?
Stay tuned, ZPE surfers....
Jones
Yes, Michel ;-) you did hear the (hyperbolic) interconnection of
superwave to superradiance first on Vortex ;-)
...even though googling "superwave" turns up 75,000 hits, most of them
extraneous to this particualar usage, but there is a particular "shady"
book worth mentioning. It is meant to appear to be ostensibly impartial,
but mysteriously it was "planted" on Amazon using viral marketing:
http://www.amazon.com/Making-Waves-Irving-Superwave-Principle/dp/1594860440
The (apparently) despicable planted review, we can only hope did not
come from Roger Lewin, who has written some decent pop-sci books, but
someone has been caught red-handed doing the worst-of-the-worst in
yellow journalism- viral marketing (read the reviews - all of the
5-stars apparently "planted").
That alone does not make the conclusion wrong, but there is way too much
suspicion in the air already about Dardik, his (reputed) medical
quackery, and "Energetics Technologies Ltd." for any carful appraisal to
fail to mention that this all may end-up being just a short step above
the typical 'crank' claim, or at worst a sophisticated scam. Time will tell.
