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What's the innovation here ? This seems to be just a re-stating of theory and research already under examination by numerous theoreticians and experimenters. |
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[suggested -for-deletion] , not an innovation, redundant, WKTE. |
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I shan't! I, for one, have never heard of that research. It's certainly not WKTE. |
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It is by NASA; a search through back issues of Physica, Nature and New Scientist will turn up more references than you can shake a stick at. |
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Casimir vacuum as a mechanism for a reactionless drive has been the subject of a special programme on Discovery Science, and the ubiquitous Prof. Brian Cox has banged on endlessly about it. |
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The map is not the territory.
The Casimir effect can be explained in different
ways, not all of which require regions of negative
energy or zero-point energy. |
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All of our understanding of physics (at every scale)
is an abstraction, a model, which is successively
fine-tuned to fit the evidence, but it should not be
mistaken for an actual “true” description of the
finest
workings of reality. |
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// The map is not the territory. // |
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Actually, at the quantum level, it is. |
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If you have the description of a particle in terms of spin, mass and momentum to a useful degree of accuracy then what you have is more than a description ; it is the actual particle. |
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Now you have it, you can send it off to travel through two slits anf diffract with itself ... |
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//it is//... I disagree. What you have is a very
fine-tuned mathematical model that describes
some physical behaviours with a high degree of
accuracy, within some bounds. |
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Newton’s laws described force-mass behaviour very
successfully, within certain bounds. |
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I'm not following where the assymmetry or free energy comes
from. My (limited) understanding is that the attractive force
exists between two closely-opposed conductive plates
because certain wavelengths of "virtual" doohicky are too long
to fit in the gap; hence there's a net force from outside
pushing the plates together. I believe the force is
independent of the thickness of the plates, and is only
attractive. |
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How about a casimir flashlight, just use IC technology to make a bunch of 300 mm IC wafers, when you get a square meter then at 3nm feature size you have more than 100 billion || casimir plates, if they all have mirrors on the back and are rolled into a cone then you have a cornucopia of photons, put a collimating lens at the front and you have a beam making flashlight. |
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That is not a casimir drive though |
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^A sister of light sail though. |
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If the plates could be held perfectly still , a switch to turn on and off still would be better, the force caused by the virtual particles wavelength difference has to go somewhere. A vacuum-ship with a scaled up number of plates directed in all directions could control which are hard surfaces and which are soft. |
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Yes, indeed, very good. We'll be seeing you in orbit around the third planet of Alpha Centauri, then, next Tuesday teatime ? |
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We'll bake some chocolate chip cookies. |
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In answer to one of your earlier questions, yes, of *course* there
are poppadums </AsynchronousInterstellar HospitalityProtocol> |
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