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To: NormsRevenge
Velikovsky!

The solar system is filled with electricity!

8 posted on 02/29/2008 5:57:22 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
The solar system is filled with electricity!

What is the zero-point field or zero-point fluctuations(ZPF)?

What is its relationship to the quantum vacuum? In the view of modern physics, the vacuum is far from empty. Take away all particles and all electromagnetic radiation and you will have an apparently empty region of space at a temperature of absolute zero. But in fact this "vacuum" will still be full of energies and particle pairs (such as positrons and electrons): the electromagnetic zero-point field, the zero-point fields of the weak and strong interactions, and the Dirac sea of negative energy particle pairs. All of these energies and particles are collectively referred to as the quantum vacuum (making the vacuum in reality a plenum). Our work so far has involved only one component of the quantum vacuum: the electromagnetic zero-point field or zero-point fluctuations. (Henceforth, unless stated otherwise, ZPF refers only to the electromagnetic ZPF.) The ZPF was a hypothesis put forward by Max Planck in 1911, and was developed by him and Walther Nernst between 1911 and 1916. In 1947 the effect of the ZPF was directly demonstrated by Willis Lamb, in a famous experiment, which Lamb himself has described as "a proof that the vacuum does not exist" (i.e. that the "vacuum" is a "plenum"). The Casimir effect, predicted in the following year and subsequently verified, is another direct demonstration of the ZPF's reality.

Questions and Answers about the Origin of Inertia and the Zero-Point Field - From CalPhysics

18 posted on 02/29/2008 6:11:12 PM PST by Eye On The Left
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