In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:45:32 -0800: Hi, [snip] >>> The following update has been appended to: >>> >>> http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/ZPE-CasimirThrust.pdf >> >> If the assumption is made that all mass is due to the ZPE, then the >> change in >> mass can be calculated as the change in energy density in the >> cavity. This >> should follow directly from the dimensions of the cavity, and the >> excluded >> wavelengths. >> >> I think Hal already did this calculation in one of his papers, >> though I'm afraid >> I have no reference. > > >I don't recall seeing a paper that breaks out the inertia effect by >frequency, but there may well be one.
No, that's not what I meant. I'm pretty sure he covers the energy density of the vacuum in one of his papers. If you exclude a percentage of that energy density by creating a cavity, then it's pretty safe to assume that any mass in the cavity will change by the same percentage. This is based upon the assumption that all mass is due to interaction with the ZPE. [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
