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sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti) writes:
: 
: Hal Puthoff's work on extracting useful energy from the quantum vacuum
: using the Casimir force looks very interesting.
: Puthoff writes:
: ".. the Casimir force, ... closely-spaced metal plates being pushed
: together ... is due to radiation pressure from the background
: electromagnetic zero-point energy which has become unbalanced ..(by).. the
: plates.  This attractive force is proportional to 1/D4... and becomes quite
: strong at (D) ... on the order of 1000 Angstroms ...
: 
: An alternative candidate .. to obtaining energy from vacuum fluctuations
: might lie in ... cold, dense, ... plasma in which charge condensation
: occurs on the basis of a Casimir pinch effect ..."
: 
: My "precognition" tells me that eventually we will build Star Ships powered
: by zero point energy. We will be able to amplify tranversable time-machine
: wormholes out of the vacuum for our ships to fly through and we will be
: able to communicate in "subspace" faster-than-light on the quantum
: connection in a globally causally consistent forever expanding universe.
: Indeed, if UFOs are real, some of them are such ships from our future.
: Ref. Martin Gardner, Science Good Bad and Bogus "Magic and Paraphysics"
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So which is it this time around? Bad or Bogus?