Several interesting and provocative News items can be found in Mitchell's newsletter.
http://world.std.com/~mica/cft.html The first relates Robert Foot's "mirror matter" in the context of "dark energy/dark matter" which is one of Horace's pet themes. From that point on - the connection of this hidden kind of mass-energy to ZPE is merely one of adjusting the semantics. http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/08/could-mirror-matter-be-the-hidd en-mass-that-holds-the-universe-together.html The second item relates to biological evidence of "magic size" which of course in the Casimir range: http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2010/December/21121001.asp Bio-antennas. Quote: "In related work, Greg Scholes led a team based in Toronto and Sydney that investigated antenna proteins. These proteins absorb light and transmit the resultant excitation energy between molecules to a reaction centre where photosynthesis takes place. The team showed compelling evidence that the 5nm wide proteins share their electronic excitation in a quantum-coherent manner. The proteins exhibit this 'coherent wiring' even under biologically relevant conditions, suggesting that distant molecules within the photosynthetic proteins are 'wired' together for more efficient light-harvesting." Now for a formative explanation. The immediate response to the general idea is that anomalous energy can appear using "only geometry", is that Nature will have been using it for millions (billions) of years. The field of "biological nano-geometry", particularly as it relates to light emission (chromophores) has been well known for decades, but ignored by physics for the most part. I've mentioned the main guy in nano biology to you before - the German scientist Theodor Förster. The mechanism is called FRET "Förster resonance energy transfer" and the critical dimensions of 2-10 nm care called the Förster radius. It is no coincidence that this overlaps the Casimir geometry and that there is (subdued) evidence of gain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%B6rster_resonance_energy_transfer Nanoparticles offer a very high potential to store energy in the form of Surface Tension. This has been called Surface Tension Energy (STE) or enhance vibrational modes. There is a decent chance that this form of energy can be recouped (i.e. renormalized, regauged etc) via the zero point field. This third paper of interest does not go that far, but it does introduce the basics of STE: "Characterization and Release of Surface Energy in Nanoparticles" Aktsipetrova et al. Brookhaven Technology Group and Moscow State University. Since a lot of this FRET background is already in the Vortex archives, let me move on to the main point of this post. Is there a potential technique that experimenters can use, based on FRET, to look for resonant materials which could be active for ZPE coherence? The answer seems to be yes, and the hint is "indigo" as in "infinite indigo" (light input in the range of 440 nm); but the details will be addressed in another posting, as this one is getting unwieldy. Jones
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