vacuum promises

[AntonioLao]

The 1st edition of Lt. Col. Thomas E. Bearden’s Energy from the Vacuum was released in 2002. This book is over 900 pages and in it the conceptual possibility of vacuum energy is boldly described in so many words, illustrations, charts, formulas, photos, and equations. In addition, many big names in science were mentioned: Aharonov, Bardeen, Bohm, Casimir, Dirac, Einstein, Faraday, Feynman, Gödel, Hamilton, Hawking, Heaviside, Heisenberg, Helmholtz, Hertz, Hilbert, Jammer, Kaluza, Klein, Lamb, Lee, Lorentz, Mach, Maxwell, Mills, Minkowski, Newton, Pauli, Planck, Poincaré, Poynting, Prigogine, Rayleigh, Riemann, Schrödinger, Tesla, Weinberg, Weyl, Wheeler, Wu, and Yang.

Unfortunately, among them only Einstein believed and then theorized the existence of vacuum zero-point energy. However, in accordance with quantum field theory, this energy is infinite and must be dropped from all perturbative calculations in order to generate convergence of power series expansion of the coupling constant. This creates no problem for QED since its constant is small approximately 1/137 and successive terms of the expansion contribute less and less to the energy integral. For QCD, its constant is practically unity and power expansions of unity add up to infinity.

Nonetheless, coupling constant can be described as slope on both Feynman space-time diagrams and Einstein light-cone diagrams. The vertical ordinate signifies the imaginary time axis and the horizontal abscissa signifies one dimensional space axis. Without renormalization, 1/137 appears in the imaginary region. With renormalization, it appears in the real region but still 90° counterclockwise Lorentz rotation is needed to shift it out of the promised land of superluminal region.

[Profpat]

Hi Antonio;

Aharonov, Bardeen, Bohm, Casimir, Dirac, Einstein, Faraday, Feynman, Gödel, Hamilton, Hawking, Heaviside, Heisenberg, Helmholtz, Hertz, Hilbert, Jammer, Kaluza, Klein, Lamb, Lee, Lorentz, Mach, Maxwell, Mills, Minkowski, Newton, Pauli, Planck, Poincaré, Poynting, Prigogine, Rayleigh, Riemann, Schrödinger, Tesla, Weinberg, Weyl, Wheeler, Wu, and Yang

Did you miss anybody? I thought a vacuum like the void is absence of anything. A TV implodes when it breaks not explodes. I'm confused as to how a vacuum could have energy. except maybe the potential energy to absorb.

Best,

Pat

[AntonioLao]

Did you miss anybody? I thought a vacuum like the void is absence of anything.

I double check the entries in the index at the back of the book. My conclusion is that Lt. Col. Bearden is not a Bohr person. Maybe he does not believed the important of the old quantum theory. But understanding the Bohr radius can elucidate the mystery of zero-point energy of the vacuum. Its existence was experimentally verified by the Casimir effect.

[Profpat]

If Lt. Col Bearden is not a Bohr person is he a boring person?

[AntonioLao]

is he a boring person?

Maybe he would not admit to this kind of stereotyping but it would also depend on who is reading his 900 pages documentation of vacuum energy. For me, his mind is certainly not a vacuum but all he did is a belief in vacuum energy not its utilization.

[Profpat]

OMG 900 pages. you could have read War and Peace.
Can I find a synopsis in Readers Digest?

[mkirkpatrick]

Maybe he would not admit to this kind of stereotyping but it would also depend on who is reading his 900 pages documentation of vacuum energy. For me, his mind is certainly not a vacuum but all he did is a belief in vacuum energy not its utilization.

We used vacuum brakes on the steam trains years ago 21 inches of vacuum would
stop a thousand ton train,not bad for an airless void!



regards michael.

[AntonioLao]

21 inches of vacuum

This looks like the differential in atmospheric pressure?

Can I find a synopsis in Readers Digest?

Maybe a Science Digest? However, if what is repeated for 900 pages is just that vacuum is energy and energy is vacuum then this can fit in a line of text.

[Profpat]

Now that is succinct Antonio, just the way I like it.

[mkirkpatrick]

This looks like the differential in atmospheric pressure?

Maybe a Science Digest? However, if what is repeated for 900 pages is just that vacuum is energy and energy is vacuum then this can fit in a line of text.

21 inches was considered normal for railway rolling stock then,now its all air and no
vacuum.


Air today-vacuum tomorrow.

regards michael.