Good question… How can ANY properties of the vacuum/ether/ZPF be measured?
Until we have instrumentation which is capable of detecting and measuring one or more properties of the vacuum, it will remain an enigma; an unknown. It was MEMS and nanotech that allowed us to test for the Casimir force… so perhaps a ZPF multimeter is not far off. -Mark From: David Jonsson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 5:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:FYI: Polarizable vacuum analysis of electric and magnetic fields How could the velocity distribution of those virtual particles be determined? David On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 10:58 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint <[email protected]> wrote: Polarizable vacuum analysis of electric and magnetic fields http://arxiv.org/pdf/0902.1305.pdf ------------------ ABSTRACT In summary, according to the analysis of the energy and force of the electric and magnetic fields on the basis of vacuum polarization, it is concluded that an electric field is a polarized distribution of the vacuum virtual dipoles, and that a magnetic field in vacuum is a rearrangement of the vacuum polarization. Thus, the electromagnetic wave can be regarded as a successional changing of the vacuum polarization in space. Also, it is found that the virtual dipoles around an elementary charge possess an average half length a = 2.8 × 10^−15 m. This result leads to the knowledge that an electric field has a step distribution of the energy density, which eliminated the divergence in calculating the electron’s electrostatic energy. And it is known that there is a relation between the fine structure constant and the vacuum polarization distribution, which reduced the mystery of the constant α. Finally, it is figured out that an extremely high energy density of the electromagnetic field can be ∼ 10^29 J/m^3, which implies an optical power density ∼ 10^33 W/cm^2; far higher than the Schwinger critical value. With these interesting findings, we anticipate that the vacuum polarization investigation of the fields will be developed further and applied to more fundamental problems of physics. --------------------------------- Some of you will remember how I’ve expressed my thoughts on a qualitative model I’ve been developing which is based on a physical model of the vacuum and its properties and behavior which results in the things that we perceive to be subatomic particles/atoms. Remember how I regretted not having the mathematical skills necessary to quantify my qualitative model? Well, it would seem that this person has beat me to it! His description of the propagation of an EM wave a “…successional changing of the vacuum polarization in space” is exactly how I envision it. I hope this scientist continues to develop his ideas, and gets some help from other bright minds… I’d like to see where this path might lead! -Mark
