Power from the Quantum Vacuum
by Dennis L. Feucht
Innovatia Laboratories
Is it not somewhat strange that electromagnetic theory as taught in engineering
school has not seen any fundamental changes for a century? Classical electromagnetism
was developed at a time when fluid flow equations were adapted in the mid-1800s
by Maxwell for his theory of electricity and magnetism, a time when everyone
thought that the aether was material. About a century ago the Michaelson-Morley
experiment and Einstein's Special Relativity dispensed with it. General
Relativity (GR) introduced the idea that space-time was warped or twisted
where there was mass, and with mass and energy interchangeable, a change
in energy is space-time curvature. When quantum theory arose Paul Dirac,
and others, conceived of virtual quantum particles in an active vacuum.
Energy, in a particle-physics interpretation, is viewed as a change in the
virtual particle flux or cross-section in the vacuum. In 1957 symmetry breaking
won a Nobel Prize for Lee and Yang, within a year of their discovery. Symmetry-breaking
is involved in making virtual phenomena in the vacuum produce something
observable.
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