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Apparent Endless Extraction of Energy from the Vacuum by Cyclic Manipulation of Casimir Cavity DimensionsIn 1983, Ambjorn and Wolfram produced plots of the energy density of the quantum mechanical electromagnetic fluctuations in a volume of vacuum bounded by perfectly conducting walls in the shape of a rectangular cavity of dimensions a(1), a(2), and a(3), as a function of the ratios a(2)/a(1) and a(3)/a(1). Portions of these plots are double-valued, in that they allow rectangular cavities with the same, value of a(2)/a(1), but different values of a(3)/a(1), to have the saint total energy. Using these double-valued regions of the plots, I show that it is possible to define a "Casimir Vacuum Energy Extraction Cycle" which apparently would allow for the endless extraction of energy from the vacuum in the Casimir cavity by cyclic manipulation of the Casimir cavity dimensions.
Document ID
19990023210
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Forward, Robert L.
(Forward Unltd. Clinton, WA United States)
Date Acquired
August 19, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1999
Publication Information
Publication: NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Workshop Proceedings
Subject Category
Thermodynamics And Statistical Physics
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: JPL-959317
CONTRACT_GRANT: JPL-960758
CONTRACT_GRANT: F04700-95-M-4216
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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