[Thud]

ping

[sourcery]

FYI

[inquest]

If I'm reading this right, does this mean that classical physicists were right about the ether all along?

[jimt]

Bump.

[edwin hubble]

ping

This is a very impressive group. A collaboration of researchers from Cal Tech, MIT, Oak Ridge, Stanford, Princeton and others.


http://www.calphysics.org/aboutcipa.html

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The California Institute for Physics and Astrophysics (CIPA) is dedicated to exploring fundamental problems in physics (e.g. gravitation, inertia, the nature of mass) as well as very-long range technological possibilities that may emerge from the properties of the quantum vacuum.

[cinFLA]

The propellor or the jet engine of an aircraft push air backwards to propel the aircraft forward. A ship or boat propellor does the same thing with water. On Earth there is always air or water available to push against.

Was this absurd statement really written by someone with a physics background?

[Captain Beyond]

bump for later read

[Consort]

There's no point to it.

[VadeRetro]

If the zero-point energy is real, there is the possibility that it can be tapped as a source of power or be harnassed to generate a propulsive force for space travel.

Actually, even if it's real, it's everywhere and exactly the same everywhere. It's entropic energy. It's useless unless somebody repeals the Second Law of Thermo.

[Brett66]

I think a scientist may have found a way to tap into something related to this to provide propulsion using a strange side-effect of Mach's principle. The physics are well understood and no new physical laws have to be rewritten to explain it.

James F. Woodward: Mach's Principle Weight Reduction = Propellantless Propulsion

[spunkets]

Planck frequency = 10⁴³ Hz. Article had 1043.

[Centurion2000]

TANSTAAFL

[gitmo]

There is a force associated with the electromagnetic quantum vacuum: the Casimir force.

[TheJollyRoger]

It's the same at all points...so it cannot be measured...
but it can be an energy source???

Crap Crap Crap Crap Crap Crap Crap Crap Crap Crap Crap

[Quix]

Some insist it already HAS had a profound impact . . .


affording bases on the moon, Mars and some perhaps even Io or some such.

But then, who can know.

[anymouse]

This is a proven hoax. ZPE has been debunked years ago.

Use some common sense, man.

[spodefly]

Will this zero point energy stuff run my SUV so I can get those damn hippys off my ass about it using too much gas?

[A CA Guy]

Saw Zero Point Energy and thought this was a Clinton Presidency thread!~

[aruanan]

Dr. Haisch at CalPhysics.org kindly responds to email.

[Cold Heat]

This could have a profound impact on propulsion and space travel.

Yes, it is the breakthrough science that will unleash the earth and make us a member of the galactic travel club.

Without it, we are stuck here.

It would be nice is we could fiqure it out soon.