Steorn Announces Public Demonstration of Orbo Technology

Originally posted by 4nsicphd

Originally posted by downisreallyup
reply to post by Hastobemoretolife

 

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Here is a good article on Zero-Point Energy that might be worth reading:

Article on Zero-Point Energy

Hope you find it helpful

As quite often happens when people engage in pseudoscientific "name-dropping," the term being dropped is being misused. The posters on this thread are misusing "zero pint energy" as a description for the virtual particles thought to inhabit the quantum vacuum. Actually, the term is a translation of the term "nullpunktenergie" as used by Einstein and Stern in 1913 to describe a state of a system from which NO energy can be extracted. Zero-point energy is the energy that remains when all other energy is removed from a system. A harmonic oscillator is a useful conceptual tool in physics. Classically a harmonic oscillator, such as a mass on a spring, can always be brought to rest. However a quantum harmonic oscillator does not permit this. A residual motion will always remain due to the requirements of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, resulting in a zero-point energy, equal to 1/2 hf, where f is the oscillation frequency and h is Planck's constant. In quantum mechanics, ZPE describes the energy state of a system at 0 degrees K. That can not be the absence of all motion/energy, because that would violate the Heisenberg Principle, insofar as that if the system/particle is at rest, we can determine both its location and momentum (0).
The posters here using the term, are using it to describe the sea of virtual quantum particles, and their associated energies, occupying a quantum vacuum. The mathematics describing this is mind-bendingly complex, involving something called lattice Quantum chromodynamics.
The bottom line is, for energy extraction ZPE, as Einstein and Stern invented the term, is a dead end. Quark and anti-quark formation in the vacuum may hold some promise.

Best wishes
Doc

Originally posted by 4nsicphd

Originally posted by gareth01422

What people also need to remember is that up until recently lots of people didn't think anti-matter existed, some scientist up in Harvard proved that wrong.

Not even freakin close to either Harvard or the U.S.. Paul Dirac was never associated with Harvard. He held the Lucasian Chair at Cambridge, the same position now held by Hawking, after he discovered anti-matter in the form of the positron in 1928. See, Dirac, P. A. M. (1928-02-01). "The Quantum Theory of the Electron". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character 117 (778): 610–624. In his later life he did come to Florida State University in Tallahassee, where I was lucky enough to attend his colloquia in 1979. The first observation of the positron was at Cal Tech, and not Harvard. Harvard really doesn't have much of a quantum physics reputation, although their astrophysics department kicks rearends.