From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)
Subject: Another Reference to a Paper Dealing With Puthoff's Work
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 23:39:30 GMT
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Summary: Vacuum Energy Extraction
Followup-To: alt.sci.physics.new-theories

For you people who are following Dr. Puthoff's work with vacuum (zero-point)
energy extraction, you may be interested in the following paper:

"Collective Effect in an Electron Plasma System Catalyzed by a Localized
Electromagnetic Wave", by Richard W. Ziolkowski and Michael K. Tippett,
Physical Review A, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 3066-3072, 15 March 1991.  (Both
authors were at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory when the paper was
submitted).

Here's the abstract:

"The possibility of the existence of an essentially single-species plasma
state represented by a stable packet of charged particles moving collectively
through space-time is examined.  The collective plasma state is catalyzed by
a localized electromagnetic wave.  Condensation to this state is shown to
occur on a very short time scale.  The model treats the particle packet as a
warm electron plasma (fluid) and self-consistently incorporates the resulting
electromagnetic field.  Predicted characteristics of the localized particle
packet and its associated electromagnetic fields compare favorably with
recent experimental data."

The connection of this paper with Dr. Puthoff is that the authors
specifically reference (very prominently) the electromagnetic vortex (EV)
technology that is being developed by Jupiter Technologies, of which Dr.
Puthoff plays a major role.

It is an adaption of this EV technology that *supposedly* can extract useful
energy from the vacuum.  Dr. Puthoff calls it 'Casimir fusion', since work
must be done to 'compress' the micro-plasma, however it apparently produces
more energy than was used to produce that micro-plasma state when it
'expands'.  At first, this seems to violate thermodynamic laws - getting
something for nothing, and one naturally asks the question:  What's the
source, and what's the sink?

Apparently, the matter distributed in the Universe is not yet in its highest
entropy state, and since the presence of matter affects the vacuum energy,
the possibility exists to divert a very small part of this vacuum energy to
do useful work, the energy of which ultimately ends back in the vacuum energy
but with the net result that the entropy of the Universe (matter plus vacuum
energy) is increased.  Thus, the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics are
not violated, as long as one draws the thermodynamic boundaries properly.
Anyway, *if this view is correct*, we should be thankful that the Universe is
not yet in its highest entropy state (we do quicken the entropy increase
along, however, by tapping this vacuum energy - maybe one net effect is to
thermalize the kinetic energy of earth's orbit when we do so.  :^)

Of course, the burden of proof is on Dr. Puthoff and his coworkers, and he
and his company are working on commercialization of this technology with
verification testing to be done by several independent organizations.  The
device will be designed to produce net electric power, rather than thermal
energy, to avoid the obvious pitfalls of trying to account for excess heat
(vis-a-vis the cold fusion 'fiasco').

The reader is also referred to U.S. Patent #5,018,180 issued 21 May 1991,
wherein the energy conversion aspects of Condensed-Charge Technology (CCT), as
Jupiter Technologies calls it, is presented.  There are other interesting
uses for CCT besides energy production including high-peak-power micro-X-ray
devices, electromagnetic signal generation, high-resolution flat-panel TV
displays, and high-speed computer circuitry.  It is especially interesting in
that such devices can apparently be economically constructed out of ceramics
and polyimide plastics using standard fabrication methods.


Now for the new reader, please anonymous ftp to the site:

lupulus.ssc.gov

and get all the papers in the directory /papers.  In particular, from the
Puthoff papers that are there, you can then take down all of his other
references in Physical Review and go over to your nearest technical library
and find them.  They are very interesting.

BTW, as an aside, in my recent phone conversation with Dr. Puthoff, he states
that Shroedinger's equation can be derived from SED;  right now several
researchers are working on firming up the foundations of the proof (several
papers have been published already, with more coming), and he believes that
it won't be long before the proof will be unassailable.  From what I gather
(this was not mentioned by Dr. Puthoff), this lends further support to the
possibility that SED may very well supplant QED since its fundamental
postulates are more firmly grounded (again, this is my interpretation, so
flame me and not Dr. Puthoff).

Jon Noring


(the opinions given here are mine and mine alone, and do not necessarily
reflect the views of any of the scientists mentioned in this posting).

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