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- From: matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Brett McInnes)
- Subject: Re: Hal Puthoff's zero-point engine 1
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.085636.14945@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Organization: National University of Singapore
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 08:56:36 GMT
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- sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti) writes:
- :
- : Hal Puthoff's work on extracting useful energy from the quantum vacuum
- : using the Casimir force looks very interesting.
- : Puthoff writes:
- : ".. the Casimir force, ... closely-spaced metal plates being pushed
- : together ... is due to radiation pressure from the background
- : electromagnetic zero-point energy which has become unbalanced ..(by).. the
- : plates. This attractive force is proportional to 1/D4... and becomes quite
- : strong at (D) ... on the order of 1000 Angstroms ...
- :
- : An alternative candidate .. to obtaining energy from vacuum fluctuations
- : might lie in ... cold, dense, ... plasma in which charge condensation
- : occurs on the basis of a Casimir pinch effect ..."
- :
- : My "precognition" tells me that eventually we will build Star Ships powered
- : by zero point energy. We will be able to amplify tranversable time-machine
- : wormholes out of the vacuum for our ships to fly through and we will be
- : able to communicate in "subspace" faster-than-light on the quantum
- : connection in a globally causally consistent forever expanding universe.
- : Indeed, if UFOs are real, some of them are such ships from our future.
- : Ref. Martin Gardner, Science Good Bad and Bogus "Magic and Paraphysics"
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- So which is it this time around? Bad or Bogus?
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