Fran,
The problem with verbalizing energy translation in Casimir cavities - is in
going from "relativistic effects" to the basic heat anomaly itself (if and
when there is an anomaly).
IOW there is a M.O. for doing this, but you may be dropping one important
detail - at least in the terminology, and I'm pretty sure we have talked
about this before. As a poor speller myself, I can understand the problem.
"Zitterbewegung" is the key detail that IMHO needs to be included to
fill-out the explanation, along with the Lamb shift, when one wants to
explain how a Casimir cavity can utilize "relativistic effects" for gain.
This does not require a broad frequency range and it does not require
specifying how time dilation operates. Below is from an old post.
In 1947 Willis Lamb carried out an experiment using microwaves to stimulate
RF transitions between orbital levels of hydrogen. There was a tiny anomaly,
and the energy difference found was a rise of about 1 GHz for one orbital
compared to the other. This energy is supplied (or detracted) by the quantum
vacuum, but there is "normally" no net gain or loss. That changes in a
cavity.
This particular difference is an asymmetrical looping effect of QED -
quantum electrodynamics, and can be interpreted as the influence of virtual
photons from the ZPE which have been emitted and re-absorbed by the atom. In
QED the electromagnetic field is quantized but its lowest state is NOT zero.
Thus, there exist small zero-point oscillations that cause electrons to
execute rapid oscillatory motions known by the lovely German word:
zitterbewegung; but normally these vibrations reach thermal equilibrium in
an ambient range near 300 Kelvin - and are vibrating in the terahertz range,
all of which is conservative, but .
The value of the Lamb shift has a tiny mass-energy equivalent, which is
about 4^-6 eV = 1 GHz = 4^-23 joules (correct me if I got this wrong) which
is not much to get excited about unless you can do it rapidly . but if your
Casimir cavity is an oscillator in the 10s of terahertz (slightly higher
than ambient - i.e. the 'trigger') then the gain can (arguably) be made
additive and sequential: well, that would be the underlying hypothesis for
the Haisch/Moddel claim, as applicable to Arata/Zhang etc . and the initial
(non-nuclear) gain is via ZPE and the Lamb shift and the "relativistic"
pumping mechanism. Either anomalous heating or cooling are possible.
The more controversial step is how this ZPE depletion then sets the stage
for actual nuclear reactions - not as a "cause" of the excess heat, but as
an "effect" of it having been released.
Jones
-----Original Message-----
From: Roarty, Francis X
Robin -
Just a shoot from the hip reply till I get a chance to sit down
after work but I wouldn't expect a Casimir cavity to transform ALL
wavelengths - the CONDUCTIVE GEOMETRY gives it a dimension (mouth of the
river)to draw from, and, like a rubber sheet it draws in space-time from
the mouth of the cavity such that the wavelengths don't really change - they
only appear changed because now they seem to fit between 2 plates without
enough spatial displacement from our perspective outside the cavity - space
time is stretching OFF our AXIS onto its own axis (inertial frame)- the
limit of the wavelengths affected from our perspective is proportional to
Casimir force and how much of the sheet can be stretched into this other
axis. It's not a velocity thing where you have to get appreciable fractions
of C to effect the Pythagorean relationship but rather the time axis itself
is being directly manipulated as in equivalent acceleration which in this
case is negative and concentrated from relatively huge reservoirs compared
to the size of the cavity such that they are inexhaustible...permanent. The
slow accumulation of gravity and normal gradients is sidestepped first by
suppression to build these reservoirs and then by tiny cavities to invert
the reservoir from normal mass like opposition to this etheric rate to
accelerating it into a stream even faster than the ambient rate used to fill
the reservoir. This works well with both reports of small half life delays
of radioactive gas (in reservoir outside cavity)and reports of accelerated
half lives (inside cavity). In fact you asked me about the magnitude of
these dilations with respect to tunneling and I think some of these
accelerated half life accelerations might be a good experimental way to get
a ball park on those numbers. I think this is a very rare phenomena where
the geometry, materials and environmental factors have to be carefully
controlled because the hydrogen must surf along the strongest Casimir force
gradients and be transforming/ contracting into ever smaller geometry---
which brings up another consideration. An object at relativistic velocity
appears to have Lorentzian contraction on only 1 spatial axis while
remaining unchanged on the other 2 spatial axis due to the Pythagorean
relationship of Gamma with respect to the time axis. Equivalent acceleration
is already effecting the time axis directly and there is no spatial
displacement therefore negative equivalent acceleration should cause an
object to contract in all 3 spatial dimensions and appear to be displaced at
a distance from any spatial perspective outside of the cavity.... perhaps
the enormous accelerations reported for UFO's is actually time axis
contraction of future spacecraft returning to their time :_)
Regards
Fran
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 9:34 PM
To: francis
Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:More on Ni-H LENR
In reply to francis 's message of Sat, 8 Jan 2011 21:01:18 -0500:
Hi,
[snip]
>
>
>Robin,
>
>When I say gas atoms see themselves as totally normal inside the cavity but
>time is accelerated inversely proportional to the cube of the spacing
>between Casimir plates I am simply applying a relativistic interpretation
to
>the Casimir formula. That is to say the longer vacuum wavelengths are not
>suppressed between Casimir plates but rather space time transforms to allow
>the longer wavelengths to fit -
But there are lots of longer wavelengths. The longest is at least the size
of
the universe (if not infinite). In order for it to fit, the time
transformation
would also have to be infinite (which would also allow all the other waves
to
fit), and besides, this doesn't match the Casimir formula, which is based on
the
size of the cavity, IOW on the longest wavelength that *will* fit. What I'm
trying to say is that you can't have a different time transformation factor
for
each wavelength, therefore you must use the factor which matches the longest
wavelength if you wish to follow this path.
Note also that any atom in a solid can be considered to be in a "point
fault"
cavity in the solid. If time were really transformed to this degree, then
radioactive solids would all decay instantly.
The smallest possible space which may be considered a cavity is determined
by
the shortest possible ZPE wavelength (the Planck length), since such a
cavity
would exclude all waves, and anything larger would exclude a portion of the
waves meeting the definition of a Casimir cavity.
[snip]
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk
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