Thanks for the description Fran. Let's focus on one subject at a time,
in this case the Casimir effect.
While you use and value theory, I see no value in a theory unless it
fits an observation. So, let's look at the Casimir effect in this
context. The evidence for the theoretical idea called the Casimir
effect is based on a force being measured between two slabs of
material that form a narrow gap between them. The assumption is that
the material blocks the vacuum energy from entering the gap. As a
result, more force is pushing inward than outward. Such a force
results from all atoms in the material being affected, not just those
atoms you might identify as part of a quantum process.
This model assumes the material blocks the vacuum radiation. However,
such blocking has no justification. If no blocking or only partial
blocking occurred, the measurements would have no relationship to the
proposed theory. Yet, people carry on as if this measurement supports
the theory. This looks like an idea that is accepted only because it
was expected based on an assumption - the assumption being that energy
exists in vacuum that is blocked by matter. As with all ideas,
anything can be explained with a few assumptions and the mathematical
tools that are available, whether the effect is real or not. That is
why the initial assumptions have to be correct.
Let's go one step further. Let's assume energy does exist in the
vacuum, which I agree is likely to be the case. This energy will
obviously have many effects. The question is: What are the effects?
If the energy is blocked by matter, then it can not get into materials
and affect any process that takes place inside of any container or
inside of any material, such as radioactivity as you proposed. If
matter is transparent, the radiation can affect behavior inside of
containers but not produce the Casimir effect. If matter is opaque,
the Casimir effect would work, but nothing inside of a container or
solid material could be affected by the radiation. In other words,
the idea seems to have a logical conflict. How is this conflict
resolved?
Ed Storms
On May 17, 2013, at 9:42 AM, Roarty, Francis X wrote:
Hi Ed,
Vacuum energy can never be totally blocked by Casimir geometry or
anything physical, even an ideal metal with optimum geometry won't
totally block vacuum energy since it needs to permeate all matter in
a Wave Structure of Matter kind of way -cant have matter [a
persistent waveform / canoe stuck in the waterfall] without this
medium passing through our plane. All matter even at the smallest
subatomic scale has 8 sides, 6 spatial and 2 that we call temporal.
Relativity teaches us that a spaceship can travel along this
temporal axis without being aware of the difference to a stationary
frame until comparing for time dilation upon return. We are in
effect, a 3D ant farm where the glass separates us from past and
future but vacuum radiation fills the entire 4D void. My neo
Lorentzian posit is that whatever rate these virtual particles/
vacuum wavelengths from the void transgress through our 3d ant farm
plane we will always perceive locally as C. We will locally see the
full spectrum of vacuum wavelengths whether we are stationary at a
spaceship approaching C or a tiny hydrogen atom inside a vacuum
suppressed cavity. I am convinced that whenever scientists talk
about experiments where they suppress certain vacuum wavelengths/
virtual particles in a lattice it is actually dialation/ Lorentzian
contraction they are observing. HUP can be envisioned as virtual
particles from this void growing into one side of our ant farm plane
and then contracting out the other side at whatever rate this medium
happens to be passing thru..and these virtual particles push matter
randomly in every direction to make room for their passage -jitter.
Puthoff refers to a "vacuum pressure" when these virtual particles
encounter matter and this interaction being the clock works behind
ZPE and the ground states upon which physics /periodic chart is
based. I think radioactivity and pyrophoricity are examples where
this interface is less stable but already normalized / rolled into
our science while Casimir effect will allow for a new science that
Puthoff refers to as vacuum engineering. My pet theory remains that
this new science will allow for the presently considered unusable
energy of HUP / gas motion to be exploited.
From a temporal perspective our physical universe is a flat ribbon
[ant farm] where even the subatomic matter of molten metals in the
earths core are all equally exposed to the time axis, as the virtual
particles pass thru they impart ground state energy to all physical
matter and are responsible for all our physical laws at different
scales. I like to consider the atomic scale as the difference in
vacuum pressure on the nucleus and electron where the well between
is created by this moving sea of virtual particles passing through
our plane where more pressure is exerted on the nucleus and leaves
the electrons' attraction to forever chase the nucleus thru time.
Casimir effect is on a different scale and needs quantum effects but
IMHO it employs the same sort of relativistic methods to suppress
the vacuum. The formula makes it clear how the energy is
proportional to surface area and the cube of the spacing between
suppression boundaries.. a good analogy is the venturi effect where
buildings act as sails opposing the flow / creating pressure on
outside surfaces while the gap between buildings tries to alleviate
the pressure and "virtual particles" rush to exit the time axis via
the spatial cavity created by the geometry. Effectively accelerating
time on average at various rates according to the most local
suppression geometry.. this is why skeletal catalysts and casimir
geometry are related, changes in casimir geometry are catalytic. A
paper from Cornell confirms catalytic action at openings and defects
of nanotubes. The changes in "pressure" according to cavity topology
experienced by gas atoms is just strong catalytic action. I think
normal catalytic action is a lesser combination of this rate of
change in vacuum pressure while these claims of anomalous heat are
examples of super catalytic action where the average suppression
rate is much higher and dynamic changes in geometry more abrupt to
the point where they can discount reversible reactions to OU.
Surface area, figures of merit.... perhaps it is time to add
geometry for cat selection?
I didn't respond to your point of "thin" metal plates suppressing
radiation because frankly I don't know how the effect is modified
with thickness -whether 10 atom sheets to make casimir plates would
measure the same value as single atom plates.. I would guess several
layers would reinforce the quantum effect of the surface layers
forming the cavity.
Fran
-----Original Message-----
From: Edmund Storms [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 5:22 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Edmund Storms
Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Nickel Aluminum (NiAl)
Fran and Andy, I have always wanted to ask someone who believes in the
Casimir effect why they think the vacuum energy would be blocked by a
thin wall of material. The vacuum energy is proposed to have a very
large frequency, which normally would be expected to pass right
through matter. Therefore, why would a cavity created by a few atoms
within a crystal structure have any effect on such radiation?
If the material is opaque to the radiation, the vacuum radiation would
not even reach the cavities within the interior of the material and
have no effect on what might happen there. If the material is not
opaque, then the cavity does not exist as far as the radiation is
concerned. People keep trying to apply this model to cold fusion.
Cold fusion is difficult enough to understand without applying an
effect that itself makes no sense.
Ed Storms
On May 16, 2013, at 1:20 PM, Andy Findlay wrote:
Hi Fran,
Raney Nickel would indeed appear to be perfect territory for Casimir
effects to be taking place. But I'd need some therapeutic maths
counselling to comment sensibly on any relativistic effects.
Andy.
On 16/05/13 19:58, Roarty, Francis X wrote:
Also skeletal catalysts like Rayney nickel are an inverse form of
Casimir geometry with pit sizes in the same sweet spot for strong
suppression of virtual particles as casimir plates. This was the
first clue that lured me in to believing these claims regarding
powders and skeletal cats like those used by Mills are all related
to the same underlying environment...supression of longer vacuum
wavelengths. All the claims regarding modified half lives and
relativistic energies leads me to believe the "suppression" is
actually relativistic and that the longer vacuum wavelengths remain
unchanged to a local observer in the pit of a skeletal cat or
cavities formed between powders grains or cracks in lattice of
Casimir geometry.
Fran
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Findlay [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 2:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Nickel Aluminum (NiAl)
Hi Jack,
I had the same idea a couple of years ago. It gets even more
interesting
when you realize that the NiAl + NaOH reaction produces Raney Nickel
(google it - it is a nano-porous material) which has very
interesting
properties. The reaction effectively pre-loads the Raney Nickel
'metallic foam' with Hydrogen.
I wonder if anyone has looked for anomalous heat in this process. I
suspect not.
Andy.
On 16/05/13 17:21, Jack Cole wrote:
Since either potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide react with
aluminum to produce hydrogen, I wonder if NiAl wire in electrolysis
with KOH or NaOH might prove interesting. Any thoughts?
Perhaps even simpler would be adding this wire to a solution of
KOH or
NaOH without electrolysis. I don't know if the hydrogen produced
would load into the lattice.
Best regards,
Jack
