Axil-- The article cited below has the following explanation of the Casmir effect in a static situation of two mirrors:
>>>"This attractive force is caused by the radiation pressure exerted by >>>virtual photons outside the mirrors and the fact that this pressure exceeds >>>the pressure between the mirrors because of the limited number of modes of >>>electromagnetic vibration that are permitted within this gap. In other >>>words, the force results from a mismatch of electromagnetic modes in space. >>>"<<< Sounds like a new EMMMF (electro-magnetic modes mismatch force) force for consideration in LENR energy coupling and overcoming electro static barriers between items making up a conduction surface between two nano particles of the external surfaces of a hollow nano cylinder. Such a force may be all that is required to force a H close enough to a Ni surfaces being squeezed by EMMMF to react. The quoted statement does not explain the force as far as I can tell. However, It refers to radiation pressure which is caused by a transfer of linear momentum between the virtual photon and the real matter electrons of the real mirror. This suggests that a virtual photon and a real photon have the same effect on matter. It seems to imply that the flux of virtual photons with its integrated momentum hitting the mirror from the inside is less than the flux and momentum of the virtual photons hitting the mirror from the outside because fewer occupy the vacuum between the mirrors as a result of the limited number of modes allowed per a unit of 2-D space. Also in the 2-D space it may be that their direction of propagation is limited along in a plane such that a transfer of momentum normal to the plane does not exist. I wonder what determines the energy/momentum of the virtual photons in the vacuum inside and outside the mirrors' surfaces. If there is a spectrum of energy of the virtual photons, what determines that? It seems a measure of the static Casmir force would allow a calculation of the of the density of virtual photons in the vacuum at virtual temperatures along with the changing constraint on the modes of E/M vibration density as the space approaches a 2-D condition. This may allow determining what that virtual temperature is and hence the expected spectrum of the virtual photons in the vacuum. If the ambient virtual temperature of the vacuum explains the comsic background microwave spectrum, wouldn't that be note worthy for the astrophysics guys? Finally, I had a problem visualizing the thinness of the mirrors in a real experiment. Also that they apparently reflect from both sides equally. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: Axil Axil To: vortex-l Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 1:08 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Is the CMB leakage from Dirac's Sea? http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2011/nov/17/how-to-turn-darkness-into-light Photons are formed from the vacuum as a part of the virtual particle formation process. But do photons give up vacuum energy if they annihilate with their antiparticle? Does the photon have an antiparticle(antiphoton) that can give back energy to the vacuum? If there is no anti-photon, won't the virtual photon made real over time add somehow to the CBR? Can someone explain how the Casmir virtual photon process works to keep the vacuum energy balanced at zero? On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: Taking all of this together, there seems to exist a prima facie case for this premise: 1) Dark matter is inherent in the quantum vacuum, meaning it is an illusion in 3-space except for gravitational effects 2) The quantum vacuum = Dirac sea = dark matter 3) CMB is not a relic of a Big Bang but is residual radiation from the Dirac sea Now comes the interesting part. Can this information, if valid, be put to use in alternative energy? One seemingly obvious way to proceed is to consider CMB as a “leak” of some kind. If it is a leak, then we want to increase the flow rate. There are many ways to increase the flow rate of various streams, some of which are applicable to microwave photons … so let the games begin… From: ChemE Stewart http://m.phys.org/news/2011-08-dark-illusion-quantum-vacuum.html From: David Roberson A thought just came to me while considering alternate explanations for the CMB. Dark matter is assumed to be distributed throughout the universe and is supposed to clump together around galaxy centers and other large massive objects. I have long wondered how this congregation of material could occur in matter that has no way to release the gravitational energy by radiation as with normal matter. Perhaps the CMB is generated gradually by the condensation of the dark matter. Or … perhaps dark matter is another aspect of the Dirac Sea ? http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0705/0705.2908.pdf
