Yes, I am quite in agreement, and these things are "real" without doubt (or
the apparent affects/effects are.)

And, that is the crux of the matter, how to control and "orchestrate" these
"things" for ones benefit (such as the difficulty faced when getting light
coherent--or arranging iron/nickel/"rare earth" atoms in logical
arrangements to achive great magnetism forces)--when all are not even aware
or accepting--just getting a start can range from difficult to impossible...

Warmest regards,
John
--
Marbles can be used in models with excellent results! However, if forced
to keep using all of mine up... I may end up at a disadvantage... I
already have seemed to have misplaced some!!!


"Asimov" wrote in message
...
| "John Smith" bravely wrote to "All" (12 May 05 18:16:40)
| --- on the heady topic of " Reflector Vs Director"
|
| JS Reply-To: "John Smith"
| JS Xref: aeinews rec.radio.amateur.antenna:30219
|
| JS Asimov:
|
| JS Then:
|
| JS If I were shrunk to the size were an atom is the size of an orange
| JS and, I am holding it in my hand--and I look over at the next closest
| JS atom, in the block of lead I am standing in, and it appears to be
| JS about a football field length away... and if we agree on the
| JS preceeding... I have a LOT of this "free energy" and "virtual
photons"
| JS in my body--correct?
| JS Indeed, my antenna has a LOT of it, in its' metal, does it not? And,
| JS it is swimming in it, is it not? And, if so, kinda strange no
formula
| JS takes that into account, right?
|
|
| Yes there is but the average net result of this energy is always zero.
| However, it can be detected as the Casimir Effect, Lamb Shift, and Van
| de Waals Forces which arise from the random motions of electrons. Some
| people have even described this effect as responsible for Dark Energy
| or Zero Point Energy, Fermi Sea, Quantum Ocean, or whatever
| descriptive term you like best. Some have speculated it is also
| responsible for the observed accelerating expansion of the universe.
|
| Some explanations--
|
| Lamb Shift:
|
| " The effect of virtual particles can be measured, and in fact won a
| nobel prize for the physicist who did. the lamb shift is the shift
| in the spectrum of an electron around a nucleus caused by virtual
| particles swarming around it.
| "
|
| Casimir Effect:
|
| "
| The following comes from the Usenet Physics FAQ
| (http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/faq.html) and includes some
| references:
|
| Original by Philip Gibbs 24-January-1997
|
| What is the Casimir Effect?
|
| The Casimir effect is a small attractive force which acts between
| two close parallel uncharged conducting plates. It is due to quantum
| vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field.
|
| The effect was predicted by the Dutch physicist Hendrick Casimir in
| 1948. According to the quantum theory, the vacuum contains virtual
| particles which are in a continuous state of fluctuation (see
| physics FAQ article on virtual particles). Casimir realized that
| between two plates, only those virtual photons whose wavelengths fit
| a whole number of times into the gap should be counted when
| calculating the vacuum energy. The energy density decreases as the
| plates are moved closer which implies there is a small force drawing
| them together.
|
| The attractive Casimir force between two plates of area A separated
| by a distance a can be calculated to be,
|
| pi2 h-bar c
| F = ----------- A
| 240 a4
|
| where h-bar is Planck's constant over two pi and c is the speed of
| light.
|
| The tiny force was measured in 1996 by Steven Lamoreaux. His results
| were in agreement with the theory to within the experimental
| uncertainty of 5%.
|
| Particles other than the photon also contribute a small effect but
| only the photon force is measurable. All Bosons such as photons
| produce an attractive Casimir force while Fermions make a repulsive
| contribution. If electromagnetism was supersymmetric there would be
| fermionic photinos whose contribution would exactly cancel that of
| the photons and there would be no Casimir effect. The fact that the
| Casimir effect exists shows that if supersymmetry exists in nature
| it must be a broken symmetry.
|
| According to the theory the total zero point energy in the vacuum is
| infinite when summed over all the possible photon modes. The Casimir
| effect comes from a difference of energies in which the infinities
| cancel. The energy of the vacuum is a puzzle in theories of quantum
| gravity since it should act gravitationally and produce a large
| cosmological constant which would cause space-time to curl up. The
| solution to the inconsistency is expected to be found in a theory of
| quantum gravity.
|
| References
| H.B.G. Casimir, Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch. B51, 793 (1948)
| S. Lamoreaux, Phys Rev Lett, 78, p5 (1996)
|
| "
|
|
| A*s*i*m*o*v
|
| ... Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.
|