On Aug 4, 2009, at 1:46 PM, [email protected] wrote:
In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Mon, 3 Aug 2009 22:55:12
-0800:
Hi,
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and then quickly flowing through a
Casimir cavity to break the Casimir bond so that recycling could
occur.
I haven't really been following this closely,
There were only 4 articles in this thread at the time you posted
this. Not much to catch up on.
but one question does come to
mind. Wouldn't the Casimir force be restored upon leaving the
cavity, thus
causing the bond to reform?
Yes, eventually, and that is the *objective*, and to repeat that
cycle as fast as possible. When the bond forms enthalpy is produced
which eventually shows up in the form of radiation or phonons.
Puthoff and others have noted this for decades. The riddle has been
how to release such a bond when it has formed, so as to be able to
repeat the cycle. I suggested here moving the bound pair through a
Casimir cavity in order to eliminate at least some of the Casimir
pressure that formed the bond, and thus to gain free energy.
I would expect that Casimir bound molecules or atoms would be
separated by collision with the walls of the cavity, thus providing
some of the energy in the form of kinetic energy, just not the full
amount of energy that was released when the bond formed, because some
of that energy is zero point energy. That is why I expect some energy
to have to be fed back into the process. The principal unknown is
just how much. It *may* be feasible that the Boltzmann tail energy
is sufficient, and thus no energy need be fed back except in the form
of the heat released by condensation. This is a stochastic effect,
but in effect the boiling point should be depressed within a Casimir
cavity.
I would not expect the *same* two molecules or atoms to recombine at
the mouth of the cavity if that is what you are asking. This is
because they would likely exit the cavity at separate times, and
because, being from the high end of the Boltzmann tail to begin with,
they would both likely have enough energy that forming a Casimir bond
with other atoms or molecules would be more likely.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
