For those who are not over-indulging on the holiday, Fran Roarty recently mentioned this article:
The Light Velocity Casimir Effect by Ostoma and Trushyk. http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/9911/9911062.pdf in his continuing effort to frame this difficult concept of a possible non-conservative Casimir force, and in an understandable way that depends on induced proximity to lightspeed - c. This does not mean that the effect, if it exists, is unrelated to LENR, as it can be a predecessor event to any other quantum effect and in such a way that cause and effect are masked. Raum & zeit tend to merge at a certain geometry. We could call it a CC Rider effect, since it is a Casimir-Cavity type effect at near lightspeed :-) The original blues song, by the way, was about falling for a hooker so today, we can prostitute everyones intended meaning with blues-changes in 12 bars err if you hit that many bars on Memorial Day. Ok, there are some parts of the article that are insightful, but other parts that are confused if not hard to justify even to an open-minded observer but since, when treading on what we Yanks call the cutting edge, it is easy to slip up and discover what the Brits pessimistically call the bleeding edge this is not going to be a critical evaluation. More like a few additional comments added - to try to massage this article into another insightful one by Calvet neither or which gets us there on its own. Because the close to lightspeed Casimir premise does have relevance for finding a way to justify apparent gain, and it is one which does not demand fusion or LENR up-front, nor that one must resort to invoking the magic three letters ZPE there is a way that it all can be worded more succinctly, with application to massive particles and near-fields. Forget the photons. That is where the authors seem to lose footing. Forget super-luminosity ya dont really need it. For finding any degree of free energy, it is probably far easier to find a way to get from 2-nines (99%) to 3-nines (99.9%) in instantaneous acceleration as the operative rationale even if the ultimate velocity is only an abstraction, as opposed to persistent acceleration. Lets look at what can happen below the Förster radius (2-10 nm) in the presence of the near-field of the valence electrons at picometers distance. Talk about some heavy duty stop-and-go traffic . Hydrogen (deuterium) trapped in a cavity of this size should fit easily, since it is far more spacious than the metal matrix where it resides in LENR but with a huge difference - the room to accelerate. Arguably, in confines below the low end of the Förster radius there is simply too little space for acceleration, since the high gradient demands a minimum space to avoid the instant deceleration effect of a tight matrix. This is a version of lebensraum that has finally found its err But in this version the particle does not need to fuse or fizz - it needs only to gain and lose a little mass sequentially, in order to cohere energy from another dimension as Calvet explains, and the best way to gain mass is to approach c slightly closer. Get it? The next leap of faith is one we often allude to here: jounce higher order laws of motion (derivatives of distance with respect to time.) BTW some of this comes from Frank Grimer, former vortician, but unfortunately his web page appears no longer be up. He had a good analogy with the seven stage gyroscope, but even that metaphor was not enough unless you can imagine a gyroscope that turns at a fair fraction of c to begin with. ======================================================= RELATION VERBAL NAME PERCIEVED PROPERTY ENERGY CONSERVED? dL/dt velocity momentum yes d2L/dt3 acceleration energy yes d3L/dt3 jerk angular acceleration yes d4L/dt4 jounce hyper-spatial acceleration ??? ======================================================= The interesting thing to me is how this can fit into Calvet view (another piece of the puzzle which Fran dug up. http://www.journaloftheoretics.com/Articles/3-1/calvet-final.htm The author provides evidence that Casimir force can be considered as a 1-dimensional force vector that is scattered in a 5-dimensional space. Abstract: Conventional forces like gravitation and electromagnetism vary with the square of the distance. This is because the corresponding force is scattered into 3 dimensions due to the distribution of virtual gravitons or photons of the corresponding field in a 3D-space. In an analogous way, the Casimir force, that varies with the 4th power of the distance, ought to arise from bosons distributed in a hyperspace with 5 real physical dimensions . Virtual field particles are probably nothing else than hyperspace particles that cross our 3-D universe from time to time, thus seeming virtual to us. This paper details how our universe can be considered as a 3-D space floating on an immense 5-D space - the hyperspace - in analogy to a sheet of ice floating in a deep sea. Ah, fire from ice. Now, lets get back to those 12-bars . Jones
