Dynamics of the Vacuum and Casimir Analogs to the Hydrogen Atom

White, Harold; Vera, Jerry; Bailey, Paul; March, Paul; Lawrence, Tim; Sylvester, Andre J.; Brady, David A.

doi:10.4236/jmp.2015.69136

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“…The corollary from this work pertinent to the q-thruster models is that the quantum vacuum is a dynamic medium and could potentially be modeled at the microscopic scale as an electron-positron plasma. The quantum vacuum around the hydrogen nucleus was considered in much more detail in the second paper [19]. Here, the energy density of the quantum vacuum was shown to theoretically have a 1∕r 4 dependency moving away from the hydrogen nucleus (or proton).…”

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Measurement of Impulsive Thrust from a Closed Radio-Frequency Cavity in Vacuum

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Lawrence

et al. 2017

Journal of Propulsion and Power

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A vacuum test campaign evaluating the impulsive thrust performance of a tapered radio-frequency test article excited in the transverse magnitude 212 mode at 1937 MHz has been completed. The test campaign consisted of a forward thrust phase and reverse thrust phase at less than 8 × 10 −6 torr vacuum with power scans at 40, 60, and 80 W. The test campaign included a null thrust test effort to identify any mundane sources of impulsive thrust; however, none were identified. Thrust data from forward, reverse, and null suggested that the system was consistently performing with a thrust-to-power ratio of 1.2 0.1 mN∕kW. = vacuum permeability, N∕A 2 ρ ν = vacuum density, kg∕m 3

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Measurement of Impulsive Thrust from a Closed Radio-Frequency Cavity in Vacuum

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Lawrence

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Journal of Propulsion and Power

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“…Work being conducted under a DARPA DSO 1 grant is investigating the implications of the dynamic vacuum model for 1 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Defense Science Office. a e-mail: sonny@limitlessspace.org (corresponding author) the possibility of structure to the Casimir energy distribution manifested in a parallel plate cavity.…”

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“…The structure predicted to be manifest in the cavity takes the form of a larger magnitude negative vacuum energy density concentrated along the cavity mid-plane that relaxes non-linearly to the unperturbed state at the cavity boundaries. Based on detailed studies of the atomic orbitals of the hydrogen atom, and deriving the acoustic wave equation from the Schrödinger equation [1,2], it is speculated that the energy density structure in a Casimir cavity is coupled to a small polarization field in the vacuum fluctuations resulting in a small but non-zero electrostatic field originating along the cavity mid-plane and terminating at the grounded cavity walls. It has been further reasoned in the literature that it may be possible to construct a customized Casimir cavity equipped with small pillars placed at the mid-plane as depicted in Fig.…”

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Worldline numerics applied to custom Casimir geometry generates unanticipated intersection with Alcubierre warp metric

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Han

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Eur. Phys. J. C

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While conducting analysis related to a DARPA-funded project to evaluate possible structure of the energy density present in a Casimir cavity as predicted by the dynamic vacuum model, a micro/nano-scale structure has been discovered that predicts negative energy density distribution that closely matches requirements for the Alcubierre metric. The simplest notional geometry being analyzed as part of the DARPA-funded work consists of a standard parallel plate Casimir cavity equipped with pillars arrayed along the cavity mid-plane with the purpose of detecting a transient electric field arising from vacuum polarization conjectured to occur along the midplane of the cavity. An analytic technique called worldline numerics was adapted to numerically assess vacuum response to the custom Casimir cavity, and these numerical analysis results were observed to be qualitatively quite similar to a two-dimensional representation of energy density requirements for the Alcubierre warp metric. Subsequently, a toy model consisting of a 1 $$\upmu $$ μ m diameter sphere centrally located in a 4 $$\upmu $$ μ m diameter cylinder was analyzed to show a three-dimensional Casimir energy density that correlates well with the Alcubierre warp metric requirements. This qualitative correlation would suggest that chip-scale experiments might be explored to attempt to measure tiny signatures illustrative of the presence of the conjectured phenomenon: a real, albeit humble, warp bubble.

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“…In [18] is shown experimentally that, in accord with theoretical prediction [19 -21], the sign of the force can be changed from attractive to repulsive by suitable choice of interacting materials immersed in a fluid. The mentioned theoretical predictions (as well as qualitative considerations in [22]) have phenomenological character and do not lead to transport PV equations in principal.…”

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