On Sep 15, 10:56*pm, Cecil Moore wrote:
wrote:
I reckon most are not although some may be. However, Seif is currently
an associate professor in New York University's Journalism Department
with a Masters in Math. He is nowhere near the caliber of a quantum
physicist which would render your point moot, would it not?

As a matter of fact, it would. From Webster's:
"moot - (1) open to discussion"

Meaning it is arguable as to whether you point is in fact valid. I am
merely trying to show, politely, that your one line assertion has
little or no impact relative to the credibility of the preceding
paragraphs in your post.


Here's what Charles Seife says under "Acknowledgments":
"A lot of people helped me write this book: it's not
possible for me to name them all. Over the past few
years I have interviewed dozens of physicists,
cosmologists, and astronomers who took the time to
explain the nuances of their work to a journalist.


Not exactly an impressive bibliography but typical of something a
journalist, not something a scientific researcher would write. Would a
Phd candidate use Wikipedia as the bibliography in his thesis? Seife
makes a great sience writer but he is not a quantum physicist not did
he reference one in his "bibliography".

I thank them for their enthusiasm and their patience.
They are the reason I wrote "Alpha and Omega" in the
first place." The Bibliography is pretty impressive.

As per my assertion above, nope. Not impressive. For someone writing a
junior high school term paper, yes for a "C" grade. For a scientific
paper, no. It is not even a true bibliography.


But feel free to try to disprove the Casimir effect.

Why would I want to do that? I already agree that the vacuum of space
fluctuates slightly around a zero point because, for example, EM
fields in a volume at vacuum may average zero but the fields
themselves fluctuate around their zero point causing quantum changes
that in turn result in small fluctuations of vacuum.

This does nothing to advance any theory that an ether or media exists
for transmission of TEM waves. It only says that there is no such
thing as a perfectly stable, absolute vacuum when fields of any kind
are present, which they always are. Also your cause and effect seem
reversed; the existence of TEM fields (and static fields as well) may
have been shown to cause Casimir effects but Casimir effects have not
been shown not make it possible for TEM fields (waves) to propagate.
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73, Cecil *http://www.w5dxp.com