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Science and technology of the Casimir effect
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 From Physics Today: Science and technology of the Casimir effect (extracts)...
Repulsion, torque, and dynamical effects
...Those experimental and theoretical results are more than just demonstrations. They point to future work in which the Casimir force can be used to manipulate nanoscale objects. In MEMS devices, high surface-to-volume ratios often result in unwanted stiction that could be mitigated with a repulsive Casimir interaction. What’s more, by producing attractive and repulsive forces and torque at the nanoscale, one can create, at least conceptually, a micro-tractor beam for moving quantum dots, nanowires, bacteria, viruses, and other minuscule objects...
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Posted by vlad on Sunday, January 03, 2021 @ 14:45:15 MST (260 reads)
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Endless Creation Out of Nothing
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 From scientificamerican.com: Endless Creation Out of Nothing - Could our universe have been an experiment by an ancient civilization? / By Avi Loeb on December 12, 2020
...But we can consider even more foundational questions. Since the atomists were wrong and emptiness is nowhere to be found, what was there before the big bang? Did our universe emerge from a vacuum fluctuation? These questions can only be answered within the framework of a predictive theory of quantum gravity that combines quantum mechanics and gravity, which we do not have as of yet. Until it is developed, we will not figure out our cosmic roots...
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Posted by vlad on Friday, December 25, 2020 @ 18:14:36 MST (204 reads)
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The fundamental building blocks of the universe
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 Via The Conversation: Fragments of energy – not waves or particles – may be the fundamental building blocks of the universe by Larry M. Silverberg (Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University)
Matter is what makes up the universe, but what makes up matter? This
question has long been tricky for those who think about it – especially
for the physicists. Reflecting recent trends in physics, my colleague Jeffrey Eischen and I have described an updated way to think about matter. We propose that matter is not made of particles or waves, as was long thought, but – more fundamentally – that matter is made of fragments of energy...
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Posted by vlad on Thursday, December 10, 2020 @ 16:02:40 MST (458 reads)
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Vasant Corporation Provides Consulting Services on Spin-Wave Technology
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Anonymous writes:
Texas: The idea behind sharing this research
about spin-wave technology is to create awareness of how the technology can be
beneficial to the environment and to the global economy.
Spin wave technology is the sum of
techniques, skills, methods, and processes for making use of the spin
interactions among atomic particles that have an electric charge, the attribute
of spin, and a magnetic dipole through their spin axes.
Since 1994, George Bugh has been
researching the so-called “free energy” devices, also known as “over-unity”
devices, to determine if any of these devices
transferred energy from unknown sources, and if so to determine where the
energy was coming from. The study includes the research of related devices
with claimed anti-gravity effects. Bugh attempted to determine the validity of
the claims, the commonality of characteristics, and how these devices could
work. He concluded that a few devices could generate economically free energy.
Bugh also concluded that there is a link between gravity and electromagnetism that
can be exploited to generate antigravity or electrogravity effects.
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Posted by vlad on Saturday, December 05, 2020 @ 12:06:24 MST (467 reads)
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Via QuantaMagazine.org: Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math by Dave Whyte
The laws of physics imply that the passage of time is an illusion. To avoid this conclusion, we might have to rethink the reality of infinitely precise numbers. If numbers cannot have infinite strings of digits, then the future can never be perfectly preordained.
Strangely, although we feel as if we sweep through time on the knife-edge between the fixed past and the open future, that edge — the present — appears nowhere in the existing laws of physics.
In Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, for example, time is woven
together with the three dimensions of space, forming a bendy,
four-dimensional space-time continuum — a “block universe” encompassing
the entire past, present and future.
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Via New Energy Times: Omitting the ITER Input Power – Cardozo’s Role/ by Steven B. Krivit
 Promoters of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, ITER, have a long history of telling the public how much output power they should expect from this experimental reactor. At the same time, they have a long history of omitting the required input power. Perpetual-motion scams do the same thing, only with mechanical tricks...
ITER is not designed to produce electricity; nor is it designed to produce overall net power. It is designed specifically for a purely scientific outcome: a fusion plasma that produces thermal power at a rate 10 times greater than the rate of thermal power injected into the plasma.
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Posted by vlad on Sunday, October 18, 2020 @ 15:46:11 MST (567 reads)
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Black silicon photodetector breaks the 100% efficiency limit
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Via Aalto University News: The efficiency was so high that at first the researchers had a hard time believing the result. Now Aalto University spin-off company ElFys Inc. already supplies the record detectors for several industry sectors.
UV-light triggers electron multiplication in nanostructures. Figure: Wisa Förbom
Aalto University researchers have developed a black silicon photodetector that has reached above 130% efficiency. Thus, for the first time, a single photovoltaic device has exceeded the 100% external quantum efficiency limit at UV. This result opens new avenues for improving efficiencies beyond the famous Shockley-Queisser limit.
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Posted by vlad on Tuesday, August 18, 2020 @ 17:00:40 MST (641 reads)
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Quantum fluctuations can jiggle objects on the human scale
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Via MIT News: Study shows LIGO’s 40-kilogram mirrors can move in response to tiny quantum effects, revealing the “spooky popcorn of the universe.”
The universe, as seen through the lens of quantum mechanics, is a noisy, crackling space where particles blink constantly in and out of existence, creating a background of quantum noise whose effects are normally far too subtle to detect in everyday objects.
Now for the first time, a team led by researchers at MIT LIGO Laboratory has measured the effects of quantum fluctuations on objects at the human scale.
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New “whirling” state of matter discovered in an element of the periodic table
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Via Radboud University: The strongest permanent magnets today contain a mix of the elements neodymium and iron. However, neodymium on its own does not behave like any known magnet, confounding researchers for more than half a century. Physicists at Radboud University and Uppsala University have shown that neodymium behaves like a so-called ‘self-induced spin glass,’ meaning that it is composed of a rippled sea of many tiny whirling magnets circulating at different speeds and constantly evolving over time. The results will be published on 29th of May, in Science.
Understanding this new type of magnetic behaviour refines our understanding of elements on the periodic table and eventually could pave the way for new materials for artificial intelligence.
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Posted by vlad on Wednesday, July 01, 2020 @ 15:51:55 MST (918 reads)
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Objective evidence of defect of the QED's standard interpretation
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WGUGLINSKI writes: Dear Prof. Hiromichi Nakazato Editor, European Physical Journal Plus
I am submitting for publication in the journal Physics Essays my paper entitled “Relation between QED, Coulomb’s law, and fine-structure constant”.
The paper was rejected for publication in the European Physical Journal Plus with the following Report, written by you:
The
main idea of the paper is based on such classical notions like
particle's motion and electric current and magnetic field seem to have
been given fundamental roles. This is evident from the figures
presented in the paper. These notions are untenable in microscopic
world where the wave-particle duality is essential even if the author
feels "strange" and the gauge field plays an essential role. They have
been supported by experiments for many years. The paper will not be
understood and never be accepted by any other physicists unless the
author provides, not a subjective (like the one the author thinks
"strange"), but an objective evidence of defect of the standard
interpretation, which is missing in the present paper. I think that the paper does not fulfill the scientific standards required by EPJPlus and thus reject it. Yours sincerely Hiromichi Nakazato Editor, The European Physical Journal Plus
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Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics
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From Stephen Wolfram writtings: Finally We May Have a Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics…and It’s Beautiful/ Apr14, 2020
I Never Expected ThisIt’s unexpected, surprising—and for me incredibly exciting. To be fair, at some level I’ve been working towards this for nearly 50 years. But it’s just in the last few months that it’s finally come together. And it’s much more wonderful, and beautiful, than I’d ever imagined.
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Posted by vlad on Thursday, April 23, 2020 @ 13:27:21 MST (622 reads)
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Ask Ethan: What Is The 'Zero-Point Energy' Of Space?
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From Forbes.com Editors' Pick by Ethan Siegel/ Senior Contributor/ Apr 18, 2020
Imagine, if you can, what it would mean to have a Universe with absolutely nothing in it. You could take all the various quanta of matter and energy and remove them, leaving a Universe with no particles or antiparticles of any type. You could remove any sources of gravitation or spatial curvature, reducing your Universe to nothing more than purely empty space. You could shield the Universe from any external electric, magnetic, or fields that exert a nuclear force, eliminating any possible influence they may have on the spacetime you're considering. Even if you do all that, you still wouldn't get "zero" on your balance sheet for the energy of the Universe...
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Via E-Cat World: An Open Secret – The Scalable, Ubiquitous EVO at the Core of SAFIRE, the E-Cat SKL, the Suncell, Brown’s Gas, and Virtually Every Exotic Energy Technology by Director
God, the creator of the universe, established the laws of the universe that govern not only the interaction of planets and stars but the processes that occur within atoms and the structure of the vacuum itself. With these rules or the “code” of reality entered, nature commenced. Those who are careful observers will note that many of the most important breakthroughs in a broad array of fields come from mimicking natural processes – whether biological or physical. Many life saving drugs are chemically altered forms of molecules found in plants, for example. Yet, in mankind’s attempt to harness the power of the atom via nuclear fusion, all sorts of artificially imposed schemes have been attempted to produce and maintain the conditions scientists believe are essential. But the simplest route to an energy panacea has been largely ignored except by a minority of exceptional open minded theoreticians and experimentalists – learning to create man made, artificial ball lighting.
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Posted by vlad on Thursday, February 13, 2020 @ 16:42:18 MST (1430 reads)
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Harnessing the entire spectrum of sunlight
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From Ohio State University: Chemistry finding could make solar energy more efficient by Laura Arenschield/ Jan 20, 2020
Researchers have found a way to harness the entire spectrum of sunlight Scientists for the first time have developed a single molecule that can absorb sunlight efficiently and also act as a catalyst to transform solar energy into hydrogen, a clean alternative to fuel for things like gas-powered vehicles.
This new molecule collects energy from the entire visible spectrum, and can harness more than 50% more solar energy than current solar cells can. The finding could help humans transition away from fossil fuels and toward energy sources that do not contribute to climate change.
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Posted by vlad on Thursday, January 23, 2020 @ 12:37:30 MST (922 reads)
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The Presence of Latent Potential Energy in Space is Exposed by Geometry Alone
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Anonymous writes: One
would never expect that the physical structure of what is commonly believed to
be totally empty vacuum space, and the issue of whether or not it stores a
large amount of potential energy, could be ascertained simply by considering a
uniform straight-line motion.
If
we express the motion in polar coordinates relative to any arbitrarily chosen
origin, the form of the transverse acceleration terms displays an uncanny
resemblance to the terms in electromagnetic induction. We can choose to believe
that this is just a meaningless coincidence. But we can also choose to believe
that this is telling us that inertial motion and the inertial forces have a
physical cause that is closely related to the forces of electromagnetic
induction. The electromagnetic induction forces themselves are rooted in the
magnetic field that pervades all of space, yet whose physical origins are
unknown to the textbooks. It’s ironic that despite the fact space is known
to contain gravitational and magnetic field lines, whose cause is not
understood, that physicists are nevertheless adamant that space is totally empty, and
that light waves propagate in this void without the need for any material
substance to account for the vibrations.
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Posted by vlad on Wednesday, January 08, 2020 @ 18:36:30 MST (1589 reads)
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