Newsgroups: alt.sci.physics.new-theories,sci.electronics,sci.energy,sci.engr,sci.environment,sci.physics.fusion,sci.physics,sci.skeptic From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) Subject: Tapping the Vacuum Energy -- An Important Paper from Bearden [LONG] Message-ID: Followup-To: alt.sci.physics.new-theories Summary: Description of Patent Application. Bearden may finally have it. Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 00:14:06 GMT Lines: 890 Xref: columba.udac.uu.se alt.sci.physics.new-theories:283 sci.electronics:2212 sci.energy:666 sci.engr:276 sci.environment:830 sci.physics.fusion:340 sci.physics:2151 sci.skeptic:2181 Hello, I am posting, with Tom Bearden's permission, a new paper (ASCII-text) to the newsgroups listed above. Followup discussion, if any, has been set to alt.sci.physics.new-theories. A nicer-looking Word for Windows (2.0 and 6.0 versions), and possibly even a Windows 3.1 Help file, both of which would include the illustrations, will be made available via anonymous ftp in a few days. Look for it at netcom.com /pub/noring/bearden . [Sorry, I will NOT mail out any uuencoded files, nor will I snail-mail anything. If you don't have anonymous ftp access, ask a friend to help out or sign up with one of the many new inexpensive services such as Netcom (for information on Netcom, telnet there and login as 'guest'). Please DO upload this file to your local BBS so as to make it more available to our friends who don't yet have direct Internet access.] In the past I've posted Tom's work to the Usenet because I find his ideas and ways of looking at things to be fascinating even if what he says is shown to be totally out to lunch. Even Dr. Puthoff, who has published several provocative papers on aspects of the vacuum energy in respected physics journals, enjoys reading Bearden's work because it helps him to break out of the "orthodox" mold of viewing things and gets the creative juices moving; of course Dr. Puthoff does not necessarily accept what Bearden has to say, but he does take the time to hear him out. I encourage every scientist and engineer who reads this to temporarily put aside any prejudices and to see if Tom's quite different view of the universe can help "break out" of any bottleneck's of thinking arising from blindly accepting orthodox views of "the way things are". By the way, Dr. Puthoff recently published an interesting paper pointing out, according to Bearden (I have not seen the paper yet but am in the process of obtaining a copy), that it may be possible to extract useful work from the so-called vacuum energy of space which quantum theory says must exist and recent experiments confirm does exist. The reference is: Daniel C. Cole and Harold E. Puthoff, "Extracting Energy and Heat from the Vacuum," _Physical Review E_, 48(2), pp. 1562-1565 (1993). Some have argued that this vacuum energy, also called a "zero-point-energy", cannot be tapped because it is at the "lowest energy", that is, there is no potential to it. However, this argument is not [yet] valid since we really don't understand the "cause" and "nature" of the vacuum energy. For example, in prior work, Puthoff has theorized that the source of the vacuum energy is due to the radiation of the motion of all the charge carriers of the universe. If this is true, then we can consider using the vacuum energy to extract the energy of the organized motion of these charge carriers, and NOT to tap the vacuum energy itself. This is *roughly* analogous to solar energy, which is essentially a conduit by which we tap the nuclear reactions taking place in the sun. Thus, until we fully know the nature and source of the vacuum energy of space, we cannot assume that it is unusable for useful energy production. Bearden believes that he's placed enough information into this paper by which an electrical engineer can go out and try to duplicate the effort, and he does want others to independently verify or falsify his claims (the Notes and References section is quite good and contains the "meat" of his theories). Tom is very serious, and *apparently* has demonstrated in the laboratory that he can "freely" charge a capacitor using a displacement current from a dipolar "antenna" which supposedly is tapping into the vacuum energy. He's now working on an efficient means of switching this charged capacitor to the load, which he says is not trivial. As mentioned below, he and his co-workers (one of which is apparently a director of a large high-tech electronics company) have filed a patent with the U.S. Patent Office. They do expect to have the patent application rejected by the USPO and in order to get it patented they will have to deliver an actual working model that has been independently verified. They are not seeking any investors, nor do they have any, so as to not "taint" their effort in the eyes of the technological community. They have enough going against them without charges that they're doing this to fleece some unsuspecting investors. History will be the final arbiter whether this paper will pass the way of "poly-water" and possibly of "cold-fusion" (this is cross-posted there since some have theorized that the anomalies seen in cold-fusion are due to vacuum energy interactions and not to nuclear reactions), or that this will be the start of a new era in technology and physics research. Jon Noring [p.s., truly my "crackpot index (CI)" has reached phenomenally high levels, thus proving Noring's Second Theorem that: As t --> infinity, CI(JN) --> infinity where t is time, and JN is yours truly. :^) ] -- If you are an INFJ, then join the INFJ mailing list - ask me for more details. If you don't know what INFJ means, ask me, and I'll send more info (46Kb file). ============================================================================= | Jon Noring | noring@netcom.com | "Fanny Hill" and other | | JKN International | IP : 192.100.81.100 | famous literary works in | | 1312 Carlton Place | Phone : (510) 294-8153 | Windows 3.1 Help format | | Livermore, CA 94550 | V-Mail: (510) 417-4101 | are available! Ask me! | ============================================================================= Read alt.psychology.personality! That's where the action is. Did you know there's a mailing list for 78 RPM record collectors?