Re: [Vo]:ZPE-Casimir Inertial Drive UPDATE

[Horace Heffner]

Even at the fairly large element sizes chosen for performance  
estimating, this prospective performance is startling, though the  
example scale is too large to be maximallly effective.  Using nano- 
technology the performance could be improved by orders of magnitude.   
For example, Casimir cavities of width less than 1/10 micron, 100  
nanometers, would be necessary to achieve significant inertial mass  
reduction.  This can be achieved by making smaller beams, but also by  
extending into parallel slits of width less than 100 nm, rows of   
planar protrusions from the beam, protrusions which are of less than  
100 nm width extended from beams which are on the  order of a micron  
wide.  When this is done only a percentage of the pendulum mass is  
involved in actual inertial mass reduction, but, given the cubic  
power distribution of the zero point field, the effect should grow by  
at least the inverse square of the slit widths.  The limits to  
advancement of technology of this kind are probably features on the  
order of 10-20 nm.

Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/